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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Heather Stewart Political editor

UK government to scrap ‘BAME’ in response to race inquiry

Activists block the A10 road outside Tottenham police station in protest at the targeting of black youth by officers and misuse of stop and search powers in 2020.
The Sewell report was launched as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the UK in summer 2020. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

Ministers will drop the term black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), beef up local scrutiny of police stop and search and draft a model history curriculum to teach Britain’s “complex” past in response to the Sewell report on racial disparities.

Launched as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests, the Sewell report caused controversy when it was published last year for broadly rejecting institutional racism as an explanation for many of the challenges faced by ethnic minorities in the UK.

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