Twelve years ago, almost to the day, I launched the report on behalf of the Community Cohesion Review Team, which I had chaired.
This had considered the causes of the race riots in the summer of that year, and I coined the phrase "parallel lives" to describe the way in which different communities had become segregated and lived in fear and ignorance of each other. Communities were divided in housing, schooling, workplaces and culture, and had little contact with each other.
.... Despite great work in some schools over the years, pupil segregation has been getting worse. [Guardian Cif] Read more
