Community cohesion: The government promoting community cohesion

Community cohesion

KEY WORDS

Community cohesion- a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society.

Multi-faith society- many different religions living together in one society.

Government action to promote community cohesion

• Financially supporting groups that are working for community cohesion.
• Making community cohesion part of the National Curriculum.
• Funding reseach into the best ways of achieving community cohesion.
• Appointing cabinet ministers, judges, etc from ethnic minoritites.
• Passing acts such as the Race Relations Act, the Crime ans Disorder Act and the Racial and Religous Hatred Act which support community cohesion by making it unlawful to discriminate or use threatenign langaueg or behaviour with…