ethnic monitoring

Ethnic monitoring - in employment as in the delivery of services - is clearly essential.

Ethnic monitoring should also be standard personnel practice so that all districts and regions can monitor whether equal opportunity policies are actually being implemented.

It is sad to see that ethnic monitoring still meets with such controversy and resistance in the European Union.

Consistent ethnic monitoring of both births and deaths is needed to provide accurate information on the local variations in the incidence of sudden infant deaths.

It is only recently that the DES has introduced ethnic monitoring in mainstream institutions and some LEAs embarked on equality targets.

If one looks at the institutions present here today – the Commission, Parliament and Council – where there is no ethnic monitoring, one can see what is happening.

If ethnic monitoring recommendations are anything to go by, both in schools and elsewhere, official information on the fate of pupils from the minorities will continue to suffer from this lacuna.

There is some confusion from the GUE Group about the purpose of ethnic monitoring which is simply to collect statistics on the progress of ethnic minorities so as to be a basis for future policy.

But if no progress is made towards full ethnic monitoring of the West Midlands case, the commission is understood to be prepared to raise the matter with Mr David Waddington, the Home Secretary, who is responsible for both the commission and the authority.

Earlier in this article I have argued that the initial debates and policies which emerged in the wake of the growing black presence were characterized by various forms of cultural and ethnic essentialism or reductionism and that this still persists, for example, in the way ethnic monitoring and other official know ledges are produced.

Of course police should and must be allowed to sop and search ANYONE they have reasonable grounds to,they should certainly not have their hands tied operationally by any ludicrous political correctness,or be forever filling out endless forms for so-called 'ethnic monitoring' if profiling reduces crime and produces results they should use it.