Summary

This submission is by a Coalition of Blacks and Black Ethnic Groups in the UK, all listed in the Appendix 1 (together called “Coalition”) led by Social Justice Partnerships (hereafter called “Submission”).

This report is based on a survey titled, “ Causes and outcomes of ethnic disparities and inequality in the UK in education, employment and enterprise, health, crime and policing A total of 603 people completed the survey of which 92% identified as black and 62.4% as women.

The assumption that BAME, particularly blacks will respond to consultation such as this is incorrect. It required a lot of persuasion to encourage black people to respond to this survey. This is not only true of this consultation. We had the same experience when we conducted the survey for Women and Equalities Select Committee on Impact of Covid-19 on BAME Community in the UK. This is important for government to recognise that it is essentially making policy that affect BAME who are not part of that process. The first step in our view is find way of engaging those from BAME community to be better engaged with policy formulation to influence it. They must see evidence that their efforts will lead to change. At the present time they are not convinced efforts such as this are worth their while and that this will be yet another report from another quango created by government to divert attention from the real issue, in this case that championed by Black Lives Matter.

The overwhelming view from Zoom consultation was that there is no shortage of evidence on these matters and that BAME people should be supported to champion review of this evidence, led the consultations throughout the United Kingdom and make recommendations not a group of individuals selected to lead their course.

We have chosen to dump the various responses as they were provided as the contents exposes the level of understanding of the issues and minimising the risk of misrepresenting some of the sentiments. We have pasted them along with the questions

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