A director of one of the 海角视频’s biggest business organisations has called for a “clear action plan” following the publication of the Government’s race disparities report.
The 258-page document has been criticised after it found no evidence Britain is "institutionally racist" - and said campaigners use the term too loosely.
Matthew Fell, chief 海角视频 policy director of the CBI, said while progress had been made, there was “a long way to go” - and he called for companies to be more “transparent” over the ethnicity pay gap.
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“Closing the 海角视频’s ethnicity pay gap is about making our society fairer and more inclusive. But there’s a strong business case too,” said Mr Fell.
“Diverse companies perform better on every metric. Disclosing ethnicity pay gaps is one of the most transformative steps a company can take to address race inequality at work.
“Publishing a clear action plan to tackle any disparities - and reporting on progress made – is key to turn momentum into lasting change.”
The race disparities commission was set up by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 - following George Floyd’s death in the US.
It was led by education consultant and ex-charity boss Tony Sewell and people from science, education, economics, broadcasting, medicine, and policing backgrounds.
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The report concluded Britain was not yet a "post-racial society" but added: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities". Instead it claimed "most of the disparities we examined... often do not have their origins in racism".
It also criticised "bleak" thinking among some anti-racist campaigners who seek to blame all disparities on white discrimination. It said white prejudice is in fact "dwindling" and those campaigners "divert attention from the other reasons for minority success and failure".
A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."
It added: "That said, we take the reality of racism seriously and we do not deny that it is a real force in the 海角视频." It continued: "As a result, we came to the view that recommendations should, wherever possible, be designed to remove obstacles for everyone, rather than specific groups."
But Birmingham City University Black studies professor Kehinde Andrews slammed the report, saying it was a "PR move to pretend the problem [of racism] doesn't exist".
He claimed the study was "not a genuine effort to understand racism in Britain".
He told the PA news agency: "It's complete nonsense. It goes in the face of all the actual existing evidence. This is not a genuine effort to understand racism in Britain. This is a PR move to pretend the problem doesn't exist.
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"The evidence is clear, it's been there for a long time around ethnic penalties in employment, around the problems in education, around the problems with policing."
The review make 24 recommendations - including that police should wear more body cameras to improve trust in stop-and-search, and the school day should be extended in disadvantaged areas.
It also recommends the term 'BAME' is dropped as it is "no longer helpful" and arbitrarily combines different racial groups.
Sado Jirde, director of the Black South West Network, has said the Government must not get distracted by semantics surrounding the term BAME and instead should be looking to make "measurable" changes to address systematic inequalities in the 海角视频.
“While the acknowledgement of the problematic nature of the term BAME is appreciated and certainly important," she said. "[The Government] must not get distracted with semantics but rather seek actionable and measurable change, both qualitatively and quantitatively.”
Mr Johnson said in a statement after the report was published that it was "right the Government considers [the report's] recommendations in detail, and assesses the implications for future government policy".
He added: "The entirety of government remains fully committed to building a fairer Britain and taking the action needed to address disparities wherever they exist."
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said there had been "report after report" on the issue and called for a full race equality act.
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Race report recommendations in full
Build trust
1. Challenge racial discrimination by tackling racist abuse online and also by increasing EHRC funding so they can use enforcement and litigation powers
2. Review how the CQC, which inspects hospitals and care homes, takes account of the diversity of health and social care staff
3. Improve the transparency of all public sector organisations making policy and funding decisions based on data algorithms
4. Police chiefs and BAME communities to set up 'safeguarding trust' groups to hold local forces to account on their use of stop and search, use of force and internal misconduct
5. Police chiefs to draw up plan for improved use of stop and search and give officers at all levels de-escalation training
Promote fairness
6. Department for Education to research how to emulate educational success of children from communities like Chinese and Indian to all backgrounds
7. More funding to reduce educational gap faced by most disadvantaged children, taking into account geography, gender and wealth as well as race.
8. Bosses to ditch unconscious bias training in favour of sponsorship and skills training, with more research on what works in creating a level playing field
9. All companies that publish their ethnicity pay gap figures to break this up by ethnic group and publish an action plan to narrow any disparities
10. NHS England to review its ethnicity pay gap and set out a plan to tackle discrimination where it is found
11. Set up new Office for Health Disparities to improve life expectancy in all groups - with focus on how ethnic minority groups are affected by different conditions
12. Tackle disproportionate number of ethnic minority young people going into criminal justice system due to low-level Class B drug possession by referring them to drugs course instead
13. Extend the school day urgently, initially prioritising most disadvantaged area with those pupils offered extra physical and cultural activities
14. Police officers who fail to switch on body worn cameras during stop and search must provide written explanation to their boss, which stopped individual has right to see
Create agency
15. Poorer children to have access to better quality careers advice in schools, funded by university outreach programmes
16. Highly-targeted apprenticeships campaign to persuade young people to do apprenticeships in growth sectors
17. HSBC to work with universities to pilot enterprise programme for aspiring entrepreneurs from under-represented and low-income backgrounds, with other banks to follow
18. Youth offending teams to set up mobile apps, text line or chatbots for young people at risk of being drawn into criminality and offer local support
19. Major review on supporting families to look at how parents can be supported to navigate education, work and the justice system - and research parenting in different communities
Achieve inclusivity
20. Independent experts to produce teaching resources so the contributions made by different communities to this country are embedded into the curriculum
21. Create police forces that better represent the communities they serve
22. Police forces to design recruitment pilots that match candidates’ life skills with the needs of their communities
23. Race Disparity Unit to work with official statistics bodies to help ensure media uses ethnicity data in responsible and informed way
24. The Government to move away from using the term ‘BAME’ and instead focus on disparities between specific ethnic groups