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The code system originated in the 2001 United Kingdom census based on Recommendation 61 of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report (SLIR). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] British police forces are required to use the SDE 18+1 codes (as opposed to the commonly used radio shorthand IC codes ) when spoken contact has taken place and an individual has been given an ...
IC codes have been used to record individuals' ethnicities in the Police National Computer. [4] [5] They have also been used in the reports on ethnicity in the criminal justice system published annually as required by the Criminal Justice Act 1991, [6] [2] and in some scientific research. [7] [non-primary source needed]
The police services of the UK began to classify arrests in racial groups in 1975, but later replaced the race code with an Identity Code (IC) system. [ 31 ] One of the recommendations of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry was that people stopped and searched by the police should have their self-defined ethnic identity recorded.
The 1991 UK census was the first to include a question on ethnicity. [15] [16] The 2001 UK Census classified ethnicity into several groups: White, Black, Asian, Mixed, Chinese and Other. [17] [18] These categories formed the basis for all National Ethnicity statistics until the 2011 Census results were issued. [18]
Community Sponsorship is a UK government-backed, volunteer-led refugee resettlement scheme. Inspired by the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program of over 40 years, Community Sponsorship was introduced in the UK in 2016. The scheme enables groups of local volunteers to support a refugee family for their first year in the UK.
This is a list of districts of England showing their ethnic composition as recorded in the 2021 census. [1] There were 309 English districts at the time of the 2021 census.
The 2011 Census for England and Wales suggested that compared with 2001, the proportion of the population describing themselves as "Mixed White and Black Caribbean" rose from 0.5% to 0.8%, "Mixed White and Asian" from 0.4% to 0.6%, "Mixed White and Black African" from 0.2% to 0.3% and "Other Mixed" 0.3% to 0.5%.
British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) [7] are British people of Asian descent. They constitute a significant and growing minority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with a population of 5.76 million people or 8.6% of the population identifying as Asian or Asian British in the 2021 United Kingdom census.