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Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

August 22, 2023

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) was a UK Government commission supported by the Race Disparity Unit of the Cabinet Office. It was established in 2020 in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd.[1] Boris Johnson gave it the brief of investigating race and ethnic disparities in the UK. Johnson argued that the UK needed to consider important questions about race relations and disparities and that a thorough examination of why so many disparities persist and what needed to be done to work out to eliminate or mitigate them.

Front cover of the 31 March 2021 report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities

Commission members were recruited by political adviser Munira Mirza, who has previously denied the existence of structural and institutional racism.[2][3] The members were Tony Sewell (who was appointed in July 2020 to lead the Commission), Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Aftab Chughtai, Keith Fraser, Ajay Kakkar, Naureen Khalid, Dambisa Moyo, Mercy Muroki, Martyn Oliver, Samir Shah and Kunle Olulode.[4][5] The Observer reported that the members did not write all of the report, nor was it made available in full to them prior to publication.[6]

The commission published its report in March 2021, the content of which caused considerable controversy.[7][8][9][10][11] The report concluded that the "claim the country is still institutionally racist is not borne out by the evidence", but some experts complained that the report misrepresented evidence, and that recommendations from ethnic minority business leaders who contributed were ignored.[12] Seun Matiluko has written that CRED "would become one of the most controversial government commissions of the 21st century".[11] Additionally, a section on the Caribbean slave trade was amended, following widespread criticism that it glorified the practice and downplayed its negative effects.[13][14]

Members

Commission members were recruited by political adviser Munira Mirza, who has previously denied the existence of structural and institutional racism.[2][3]

Reactions

Political

Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, said that he was "disappointed" by the Commission's report.[18][19]

Isabelle Parasram, vice president of the Liberal Democrats, issued a statement that the Commission had "missed the opportunity to make a clear, bold statement on the state of race equality in this country". Parasram said that the "evidence and impact of racism in the UK is overwhelming" and that "whilst some of recommendations made in the report are helpful, they fall far short of what could have been achieved".[20]

The Green Party of England and Wales issued a statement condemning the summary of the report as "a deliberate attempt to whitewash institutional racism" and that "Institutional racism in the UK does exist".[21]

In March 2022, the government announced a series of policy measures intended to address racial disparities, informed by the report. The action plan is called Inclusive Britain.[22]

Other

Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Bishop of Dover, described the report as "deeply disturbing"; she said the “lived experience” of the people “tells a different story to that being shared by this report”.[23]

The historian David Olusoga accused the report's authors of appearing to prefer "history to be swept under the carpet" and compared it to the Trump-era 1776 Commission.[24]

A Guardian editorial quoted Boris Johnson's intent to "change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination"[25] when setting up the commission, and as evidence of the reality of racial inequality listed five recent government reports on different aspects:[26]

David Goodhart from the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange welcomed the report as "a game-changer for how Britain talks about race".[35]

In an article analysing the report in the journal Ethnicities, Leon Tikly, the UNESCO Chair in Good Quality Education at the University of Bristol, focused on the report's "spurious claims to objectivity, the erasure of racism and the inadequacy of its recommendations". Tikly wrote that "[t]hrough advocating a 'colourblind' approach to education policy and the selective appropriation of multicultural discourse", the report "needs to be understood as part of a wider effort to reconfigure the nationalist project in response to crisis". Tikly did, however, argue that "despite its many flaws, the Sewell report poses challenges for those who have traditionally been aligned to multiculturalism and antiracism in education".[36]

In a response to the report published in BMJ Opinion, medical scholars Mohammad S. Razai, Azeem Majeed and Aneez Esmail argued that "the report’s conclusions, recommendations, and cherry-picked data to support a particular narrative shows why it should have been externally peer reviewed by independent health experts and scientists", and noted the absence of any health experts or biomedical scientists among its authors. Razai, Majeed and Esmail argued that the report's conclusions were reached by ignoring evidence identifying systemic racism as a cause of ethnic differences in socioeconomic status, and characterised the report's claims about COVID-19 as unsupported, and its claims about life expectancy as false and contradictory. The authors concluded that the report was "more suitable as a political manifesto rather than an authoritative expert report."[37][38]

Several individuals and institutions identified by the report's authors as having conducted research for the report, including The King's Fund and the historians Stephen Bourne and S. I. Martin, said after its publication that they had not conducted research specifically for the commission. Bourne said he had been identified as a "stakeholder" after identifying a roundtable discussion, and had not known the purpose of the event or that the report was being compiled.[39]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Charity boss Tony Sewell to head government race commission". BBC News. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Dismay as No 10 adviser is chosen to set up UK race inequality commission". the Guardian. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Race report: Was controversy part of the plan?". BBC News. 3 April 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities". GOV.UK.
  5. ^ Thomas, Tobi; Mohdin, Aamna (March 31, 2021). "Racial disparities in the UK: the people who compiled the report" – via www.theguardian.com.
  6. ^ a b Iqbal, Nosheen (11 April 2021). "Downing Street rewrote 'independent' report on race, experts claim". The Observer. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Windrush campaigners alarmed by omissions of No 10 race report". the Guardian. April 2, 2021.
  8. ^ "Editorial: The government's race report is an exercise in gaslighting". The Independent. April 1, 2021.
  9. ^ "Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'". March 31, 2021 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  10. ^ Neilan, Catherine; Diver, Tony (March 31, 2021). "Race report 'reluctant to accept structural issues', says Sir Keir Starmer" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  11. ^ a b Matiluko, Seun (7 January 2023). "Truth, lies and racism: The story behind the "Sewell Report"". The House. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  12. ^ Savage, Michael; Iqbal, Nosheen (4 April 2021). "Race report boss wanted schools to teach 'the truth' about modern Britain". The Observer. Retrieved 4 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Aamna Mohdin (2021-04-30). "UK race commission amends line on slave trade after criticism". Guardian.
  14. ^ Simon Murphy, Eleni Courea (2021-03-31). "Backlash over Sewell report slavery claim". The Times.
  15. ^ "Aftab Chughtai MBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  16. ^ Walker, Jonathan (16 July 2020). "Birmingham businessman appointed to Boris' commission to end racial inequality". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  17. ^ "Mercy Muroki". GOV.UK. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  18. ^ Neilan, Catherine; Diver, Tony (31 March 2021). "Race report 'reluctant to accept structural issues', says Sir Keir Starmer". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'". BBC News. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ Parasram, Isabelle. "Statement on the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 1 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  21. ^ "Greens are clear: Institutional racism in the UK does exist". Green Party of England and Wales. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  22. ^ Campbell, Adina (17 March 2022). "Long-term plan to tackle racial disparity in UK". BBC News. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  23. ^ Pat, Ashworth (2 April 2021). "Commission's report on race 'deeply disturbing' says Bishop of Dover". Church Times. Retrieved 2 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ Quinn, Ben; Parveen, Nazia (2 April 2021). "Historian David Olusoga joins academic criticism of No 10's race report". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  25. ^ Honeycombe-Foster, Matt (15 June 2020). "Boris Johnson launches fresh review into racial inequality in wake of Black Lives Matters protests". PoliticsHome. Retrieved 3 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ "The Guardian view on Boris Johnson's race review: you cannot be serious". The Guardian. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ Bowcott, Owen; Dodd, Vikram (8 September 2017). "Exposed: 'racial bias' in England and Wales criminal justice system". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ^ Lammy, David (8 September 2017). "Lammy review: final report". gov.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ Asthana, Anushka; Bengtsson, Helena (9 October 2017). "Audit lays bare racial disparities in UK schools, courts and workplaces". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ^ "Race in the workplace: The McGregor-Smith Review". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  31. ^ Burt, Emily. "Government urges employers to publish ethnicity pay gap as it launches equality review". People Management. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  32. ^ Allison, Eric; Hattenstone, Simon (2 November 2017). "Now we know the shocking facts of deaths in custody, will Theresa May act? - Eric Allison and Simon Hattenstone". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  33. ^ Gentleman, Amelia (14 October 2020). "Windrush report author attacks Home Office's response". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  34. ^ Williams, Wendy (31 March 2020). "Windrush Lessons Learned Review by Wendy Williams". gov.uk.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  35. ^ "The Sewell commission is a game-changer for how Britain talks about race". Policy Exchange. 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  36. ^ Tikly, Leon (2022). "Racial formation and education: A critical analysis of the Sewell report". Ethnicities. doi:10.1177/14687968211061882. hdl:1983/c138bb0c-bd68-488c-9655-ecc699ab5d54.
  37. ^ Razai, Mohammad S.; Majeed, Azeem; Esmail, Aneez (31 March 2021). "Structural racism is a fundamental cause and driver of ethnic disparities in health". BMJ Opinion. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  38. ^ Mahon, Leah (1 April 2021). "British Medical Journal warns that the government's race report is "a missed opportunity" to tackle disparities in healthcare among ethnic minorities". The Voice. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  39. ^ Mohdin, Aamna (1 April 2021). "Experts cited in No 10's race report claim they were not properly consulted". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

External links

  • Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities website
  • The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities 31 March 2021
  • Statement from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities on the report published 31 March 2021 2 April 2021

August 22, 2023
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The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities CRED was a UK Government commission supported by the Race Disparity Unit of the Cabinet Office It was established in 2020 in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd 1 Boris Johnson gave it the brief of investigating race and ethnic disparities in the UK Johnson argued that the UK needed to consider important questions about race relations and disparities and that a thorough examination of why so many disparities persist and what needed to be done to work out to eliminate or mitigate them Front cover of the 31 March 2021 report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic DisparitiesCommission members were recruited by political adviser Munira Mirza who has previously denied the existence of structural and institutional racism 2 3 The members were Tony Sewell who was appointed in July 2020 to lead the Commission Maggie Aderin Pocock Aftab Chughtai Keith Fraser Ajay Kakkar Naureen Khalid Dambisa Moyo Mercy Muroki Martyn Oliver Samir Shah and Kunle Olulode 4 5 The Observer reported that the members did not write all of the report nor was it made available in full to them prior to publication 6 The commission published its report in March 2021 the content of which caused considerable controversy 7 8 9 10 11 The report concluded that the claim the country is still institutionally racist is not borne out by the evidence but some experts complained that the report misrepresented evidence and that recommendations from ethnic minority business leaders who contributed were ignored 12 Seun Matiluko has written that CRED would become one of the most controversial government commissions of the 21st century 11 Additionally a section on the Caribbean slave trade was amended following widespread criticism that it glorified the practice and downplayed its negative effects 13 14 Contents 1 Members 2 Reactions 2 1 Political 2 2 Other 3 References 4 External linksMembers EditCommission members were recruited by political adviser Munira Mirza who has previously denied the existence of structural and institutional racism 2 3 Tony Sewell who led the Commission was running the charity Generating Genius and had previously worked with Boris Johnson during his mayorship of London The BBC described him as a longstanding commentator on racial issues and education who had attracted criticism for some of some comments including that lessons were too feminised Afro Caribbean culture was anti intellectual and that much of the supposed evidence of institutional racism is flimsy 1 Maggie Aderin Pocock a space scientist and presenter of the BBC programme The Sky at Night 1 Aftab Chughtai the owner of a Birmingham department store and cofounder of the pro Brexit group Muslims for Britain 1 15 16 Keith Fraser a former police officer and chair of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales 1 Ajay Kakkar a Professor of Surgery at University College London 1 Naureen Khalid a co founder of UkGovChat an online forum for school governors 1 Dambisa Moyo an economist and author 1 Mercy Muroki a researcher at the Centre for Social Justice think tank 17 Martyn Oliver CEO of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust 1 Samir Shah a former journalist and former chair of The Runnymede Trust 1 Kunle Olulode an anti racism activist and director of the charity Voice4Change 6 Reactions EditPolitical Edit Keir Starmer leader of the Labour Party said that he was disappointed by the Commission s report 18 19 Isabelle Parasram vice president of the Liberal Democrats issued a statement that the Commission had missed the opportunity to make a clear bold statement on the state of race equality in this country Parasram said that the evidence and impact of racism in the UK is overwhelming and that whilst some of recommendations made in the report are helpful they fall far short of what could have been achieved 20 The Green Party of England and Wales issued a statement condemning the summary of the report as a deliberate attempt to whitewash institutional racism and that Institutional racism in the UK does exist 21 In March 2022 the government announced a series of policy measures intended to address racial disparities informed by the report The action plan is called Inclusive Britain 22 Other Edit Rose Hudson Wilkin the Bishop of Dover described the report as deeply disturbing she said the lived experience of the people tells a different story to that being shared by this report 23 The historian David Olusoga accused the report s authors of appearing to prefer history to be swept under the carpet and compared it to the Trump era 1776 Commission 24 A Guardian editorial quoted Boris Johnson s intent to change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimisation and discrimination 25 when setting up the commission and as evidence of the reality of racial inequality listed five recent government reports on different aspects 26 the criminal justice system the David Lammy review of 2017 27 28 schools courts and the workplace the Theresa May race audit of 2017 29 pay the Ruby McGregor Smith review of 2017 30 31 deaths in police custody the Elish Angiolini report of 2017 32 the Windrush scandal the Wendy Williams review of 2020 33 34 David Goodhart from the right wing think tank Policy Exchange welcomed the report as a game changer for how Britain talks about race 35 In an article analysing the report in the journal Ethnicities Leon Tikly the UNESCO Chair in Good Quality Education at the University of Bristol focused on the report s spurious claims to objectivity the erasure of racism and the inadequacy of its recommendations Tikly wrote that t hrough advocating a colourblind approach to education policy and the selective appropriation of multicultural discourse the report needs to be understood as part of a wider effort to reconfigure the nationalist project in response to crisis Tikly did however argue that despite its many flaws the Sewell report poses challenges for those who have traditionally been aligned to multiculturalism and antiracism in education 36 In a response to the report published in BMJ Opinion medical scholars Mohammad S Razai Azeem Majeed and Aneez Esmail argued that the report s conclusions recommendations and cherry picked data to support a particular narrative shows why it should have been externally peer reviewed by independent health experts and scientists and noted the absence of any health experts or biomedical scientists among its authors Razai Majeed and Esmail argued that the report s conclusions were reached by ignoring evidence identifying systemic racism as a cause of ethnic differences in socioeconomic status and characterised the report s claims about COVID 19 as unsupported and its claims about life expectancy as false and contradictory The authors concluded that the report was more suitable as a political manifesto rather than an authoritative expert report 37 38 Several individuals and institutions identified by the report s authors as having conducted research for the report including The King s Fund and the historians Stephen Bourne and S I Martin said after its publication that they had not conducted research specifically for the commission Bourne said he had been identified as a stakeholder after identifying a roundtable discussion and had not known the purpose of the event or that the report was being compiled 39 References Edit a b c d e f g h i j Charity boss Tony Sewell to head government race commission BBC News 16 July 2020 Retrieved 12 April 2021 a b Dismay as No 10 adviser is chosen to set up UK race inequality commission the Guardian 15 June 2020 Retrieved 5 April 2021 a b Race report Was controversy part of the plan BBC News 3 April 2021 Retrieved 5 April 2021 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities GOV UK Thomas Tobi Mohdin Aamna March 31 2021 Racial disparities in the UK the people who compiled the report via www theguardian com a b Iqbal Nosheen 11 April 2021 Downing Street rewrote independent report on race experts claim The Observer Retrieved 12 April 2021 Windrush campaigners alarmed by omissions of No 10 race report the Guardian April 2 2021 Editorial The government s race report is an exercise in gaslighting The Independent April 1 2021 Race report UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities March 31 2021 via www bbc co uk Neilan Catherine Diver Tony March 31 2021 Race report reluctant to accept structural issues says Sir Keir Starmer via www telegraph co uk a b Matiluko Seun 7 January 2023 Truth lies and racism The story behind the Sewell Report The House Retrieved 7 January 2023 Savage Michael Iqbal Nosheen 4 April 2021 Race report boss wanted schools to teach the truth about modern Britain The Observer Retrieved 4 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Aamna Mohdin 2021 04 30 UK race commission amends line on slave trade after criticism Guardian Simon Murphy Eleni Courea 2021 03 31 Backlash over Sewell report slavery claim The Times Aftab Chughtai MBE GOV UK Retrieved 12 April 2021 Walker Jonathan 16 July 2020 Birmingham businessman appointed to Boris commission to end racial inequality BirminghamLive Retrieved 12 April 2021 Mercy Muroki GOV UK 16 July 2020 Retrieved 12 April 2021 Neilan Catherine Diver Tony 31 March 2021 Race report reluctant to accept structural issues says Sir Keir Starmer The Daily Telegraph Retrieved 1 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Race report UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities BBC News 31 March 2021 Retrieved 1 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Parasram Isabelle Statement on the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Liberal Democrats Retrieved 1 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Greens are clear Institutional racism in the UK does exist Green Party of England and Wales 31 March 2021 Retrieved 1 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Campbell Adina 17 March 2022 Long term plan to tackle racial disparity in UK BBC News Retrieved 17 March 2022 Pat Ashworth 2 April 2021 Commission s report on race deeply disturbing says Bishop of Dover Church Times Retrieved 2 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Quinn Ben Parveen Nazia 2 April 2021 Historian David Olusoga joins academic criticism of No 10 s race report The Guardian Retrieved 3 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Honeycombe Foster Matt 15 June 2020 Boris Johnson launches fresh review into racial inequality in wake of Black Lives Matters protests PoliticsHome Retrieved 3 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link The Guardian view on Boris Johnson s race review you cannot be serious The Guardian 31 March 2021 Retrieved 3 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Bowcott Owen Dodd Vikram 8 September 2017 Exposed racial bias in England and Wales criminal justice system The Guardian Retrieved 2 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Lammy David 8 September 2017 Lammy review final report gov uk Retrieved 2 April 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Asthana Anushka Bengtsson Helena 9 October 2017 Audit lays bare racial disparities in UK schools courts and workplaces The Guardian Retrieved 3 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Race in the workplace The McGregor Smith Review GOV UK Retrieved 2018 07 20 Burt Emily Government urges employers to publish ethnicity pay gap as it launches equality review People Management Retrieved 2018 07 20 Allison Eric Hattenstone Simon 2 November 2017 Now we know the shocking facts of deaths in custody will Theresa May act Eric Allison and Simon Hattenstone Theguardian com Retrieved 2 November 2017 Gentleman Amelia 14 October 2020 Windrush report author attacks Home Office s response The Guardian Retrieved 2 April 2021 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint url status link Williams Wendy 31 March 2020 Windrush Lessons Learned Review by Wendy Williams gov uk a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link The Sewell commission is a game changer for how Britain talks about race Policy Exchange 2021 03 31 Retrieved 2021 04 09 Tikly Leon 2022 Racial formation and education A critical analysis of the Sewell report Ethnicities doi 10 1177 14687968211061882 hdl 1983 c138bb0c bd68 488c 9655 ecc699ab5d54 Razai Mohammad S Majeed Azeem Esmail Aneez 31 March 2021 Structural racism is a fundamental cause and driver of ethnic disparities in health BMJ Opinion Retrieved 14 August 2021 Mahon Leah 1 April 2021 British Medical Journal warns that the government s race report is a missed opportunity to tackle disparities in healthcare among ethnic minorities The Voice Retrieved 14 August 2022 Mohdin Aamna 1 April 2021 Experts cited in No 10 s race report claim they were not properly consulted The Guardian Retrieved 17 August 2022 External links EditCommission on Race and Ethnic Disparities website The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities 31 March 2021 Statement from the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities on the report published 31 March 2021 2 April 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities amp oldid 1170916466, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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