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POLICY AND POLITICS

Action plan to strengthen cohesion

The Government yesterday published an action plan aimed at strengthening community cohesion across the UK.

The Government yesterday published an action plan aimed at strengthening community cohesion across the UK.

Its strategy seeks to address rising divisions and social pressures, including hate crime and extremism, by promoting shared values and community connectedness.

The plan argued that changes in technology, demographics and economic pressures have strained community relations, which extremists and other states seek to exploit.

Ministers have vowed to tackle those who seek to divide neighbourhoods.

Communities secretary Steve Reed said: ‘We choose to come together in the best of times and the worst of times, and we choose to take on those who try to divide us.'

An annual state of extremism report will monitor trends.

The action plan comes as UK council leaders came together to send a message that the core cities will ‘always be places of diversity and tolerance'.

 

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