CALL FOR NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BOOST RECRUITMENT OF COUNCILLORS

A new report from MPs is calling on the Government to support a high profile national campaign to boost the recruitment of councillors. An all-party Parliamentary Group inquiry into the role of a councillor has found that one barrier stopping people becoming councillors is a lack of awareness about the role and the way local government operates.

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STUDY SAYS PUBLIC ARE MISLED OVER LEVELS OF CRIME

An independent think tank is claiming today that the public is being misled about the true level of crime. A report from Civitas says the British Crime Survey omits three million crimes. “Crime in England and Wales: More Violence and More Chronic Victims”, has been written by Graham Farrell, professor of criminology at Loughborough University, and Ken Pease, a former acting head of the Police Research Group at the Home Office. They say that since it began in 1981, the Survey has omitted many crimes committed against people who have been repeat victims.

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This report from the Commission for Racial Equality sets out findings from a research project to identify the level of ethnic minority participation in Local Strategic Partnerships and to assess which groups benefit from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.Researchers looked at participation in LSPs by people from ethnic minorities and found that most LSPs did not monitor their members by ethnic origin. Without monitoring, it is not possible to determine the overall level of participation by people from ethnic minorities in LSPs across the country. Less than one third of LSPs in the survey had set aside places for representatives from ethnic minorities in their core structure, that is, on the main LSP board, and two in five had done this for their wider structure.

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