Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force
The Strategy Unit Report
In March 2001, the Prime Minister commissioned the Strategy Unit to undertake a project on improving the employment performance of ethnic minorities.
The Strategy Unit, which published its final report in March 2003, examined a range of factors influencing the labour market achievement of ethnic minority people, and set out three specific categories of policy measures to address the many barriers to success in employment:
- Action to improve employability by raising levels of educational attainment and skills;
- Action to connect people with work by reforming existing employment programmes, tackling specific barriers to work in deprived areas, and promoting self-employment; and
- Action to promote equal opportunities in the workplace through better advice and support to employers, and through more effective use of levers such as public procurement.
The Task Force
With the change in administration arrangements are currently under review and details will be posted as decisions are made.
