We work to raise the profile of integration, with policy recommendations to increase contact between people from different backgrounds.
We need to think about integration and social connection in a new way – refusing to divide people into ‘Them and Us’, whether that’s about migrants, ethnic minorities or British Muslims.
We put forward concrete ideas to make integration an ‘everybody’ issue, shaping a ‘New Us’ so we can all feel part of a country that is closer, kinder and more connected.
British Future was one of a broad coalition of voices calling for the 2020s to be a ‘Decade of reconnection’ – and is now an integral part of the Together Coalition carrying this work forward.
British Future is the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration. Click here for more information on the APPG.
Date: 3 January 2020
Some of the UK’s biggest organisations from worlds of sport, culture, faith and business call for a ‘decade of reconnection’.
Date: 9 February 2019
British Future welcomed the Government’s new Integrated Communities Action plan, urging that plans are not squeezed out by competing pressures of Brexit.
Date: 5 June 2018
Greater efforts to promote contact between children from different ethnic, faith and class backgrounds – including ‘twinning’ of faith schools to help pupils mix with children of other faiths – should be mandatory in all state schools, British Future proposes today in its submission to the government’s consultation on its Integrated Communities Strategy green paper.
Date: 16 March 2018
The new London integration strategy must truly work for ‘all of us’, not just for migrants and minorities, if it is to really increase integration across the capital
Date: 14 March 2018
What needs to happen to turn the Green Paper commitments into real integration? Jill Rutter highlights ten things that need to happen for this to take place.
Date: 14 March 2018
The new Integration Green Paper moves on from the Casey Review to a broader debate about integration. There is consensus on what we need to do – now we must get on and do it.
Date: 26 February 2018
Join us for ‘Immigration and integration: getting it right locally’, an essential event for anyone working on integration, community cohesion and immigration in the UK.
Date: 25 August 2017
Integration in the UK is just as important as what happens at our borders if we are to build consensus on immigration, writes Jill Rutter
Date: 1 May 2017
All candidates in the mayoral elections for England’s new ‘city-regions’ should support the appointment of a ‘deputy mayor for integration,’ says a report.
Martin Hewitt, former head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, has been appointed by the Prime Minister to take charge of hundreds of investigators taking on the gangs behind the Channel crossings.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/15/undercover-tactics-to-smash-people-smuggling-gangs/
More tragedy in the Channel at the weekend as eight people died after the their dinghy hit rocks, reports BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ln150287yo
Look out next week for our new report on the latest findings from the @britishfuture @IpsosUK immigration attitudes tracker – which has tracked opinion on immigration since 2015
'After riots, community leaders urge Starmer to build a united Britain' - @EasternEye speaks to @BelongNetwork about the new 'After the Riots' report on building cohesion, with comments from @AkeelaAhmed and @QariAsim
https://www.easterneye.biz/starmer-community-leaders-riots-united-britain/
"Laying the foundations of cohesion and resilience has to be an agenda for everywhere. The government needs to articulate a ‘state of the nation’ vision and strategy that supports and empowers local action plans." @sundersays for @EasternEye
‘State-of-the-nation vision needed to boost cohesion’ - EasternEye
AS THE weeks pass, the six days and nights of violence and disorder which spread across the country this summer ...
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12 wise recommendations on how we build a less fractured society. Bravo @britishfuture @BelongNetwork @togethercoalit
Am sure I won't be agreeing with all of this, but the analysis from @britishfuture is always perceptive, interesting and (most importantly) rooted in 21st century reality rather than the 19th.
'PM cannot leave job half done in wake of riots, says social cohesion report' - @MailOnline (via @PA) on our new 'After the riots' report:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-13840603/PM-leave-job-half-wake-riots-says-social-cohesion-report.html
.@MrBrendanCox highlights on @LBCNews the "long-running neglect of our communities" and how the govt needs a long-term plan to increase social connection and cohesion across divides.
.@MrBrendanCox of @togethercoalit will be talking to @martinstanford on @LBCNews at 9.30am about the new 'After the riots' report
.@MrBrendanCox of @togethercoalit will be talking to @martinstanford on @LBCNews at 9.30am about the new 'After the riots' report
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