Racial segregation ‘growing in UK’, Dame Louise Casey warns
from BBC News:
Segregation and social exclusion has reached “worrying levels” and is fuelling inequality in some areas of Britain, a report has found.
Women in some communities are denied “even their basic rights as British residents”, the Casey Review said.
Dame Louise Casey accused public bodies of ignoring or condoning divisive or harmful religious practices for fear of being called racist.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said he would study the findings “closely”.
Dame Louise’s review into the integration of minorities was commissioned by former prime minister David Cameron as part of the government’s efforts to tackle extremism.
Among her recommendations are that immigrants could take an “integration oath” and schoolchildren be taught British values.
Her review said there was a sense that people from different backgrounds got on well together at a general level, but community cohesion “did not feel universally strong across the country”.
She found “high levels of social and economic isolation in some places, and cultural and religious practices in communities that are not only holding some of our citizens back but run contrary to British values and sometimes our laws”.
Her report highlighted the plight of women in some Muslim communities, who she said were less likely to speak English and more likely to be kept at home.
“Misogyny and patriarchy has to come to an end,” Dame Louise said. “We must not fear being racist or homophobic.”
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