Home Secretary and Communities Secretary have announced new measures to tackle Hate Crime

Today, the Home Secretary and Communities Secretary have announced new measures to tackle hate crime, including a review into how to make legislation more effective, provision of £1.5 million extra funding for communities, and a new nationwide public awareness campaign.

 

These new measures include:

• wide-ranging Law Commission review into hate crime – to explore how to make current legislation more effective and consider if there should be additional protected characteristics, such as misogyny and age
• new nationwide public awareness campaign to launch later this autumn designed to educate on what hate crime is
• extending the Home Office Places of Worship Scheme for a further year to support more religious institutions which are vulnerable to hate attacks
• improving police response by offering call handlers specialist training on how to support hate crime victims and revamping the True Vision reporting website
• over £1.5 million of further funding for groups such as the Anne Frank Trust and Kick It Out, which support young people to challenge prejudice and hatred
• anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim roundtables, hosted by ministers, to discuss responses to these issues

The refresh has been designed to address specific concerns across all 5 monitored strands of hate crime:

• race
• religion
• sexual orientation
• transgender identity
• disability

For more information,  please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hate-crime-plan-refreshed-to-protect-victims-and-promote-shared-values