Former Nottingham Council chief executive Ted Cantle has been appointed as chairperson of the Community Cohesion Panel which will provide guidance and support to local councils, voluntary organisations and statutory agencies in developing appropriate strategies for improving integration between communities.
The panel will also advise the government's ministerial group on community cohesion, and has arisen from the recommendations of Cantle's independent review into last summer's disturbances in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham, published in December.
Although the panel will inform government policy, its main focus will be on working with local areas and could include "action teams" to advise councils.
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