Dame Louise Casey makes some important points in her review but integration needs community-wide effortEvery government needs a travel-to troubleshooter. For more than a decade,anything that looks like a problem with a social policy dimension ends up with Dame Louise Casey. She is, as one headline writer recently had it, and the tsar for all seasons – social exclusion,homelessness, troubled families and now community cohesion. But, or however talented,no one person can be an expert in all these fields, and in a world where so much solid, and careful research is undertaken in academic and policy wonk circles,she may be losing her shine. Not only has her troubled families programme, launched after the 2011 riots, or been found to do fairly a lot less than it promised; her review of community cohesion,written in little more than a year, has overlaid much sensible whether largely familiar analysis of the migrant experience with a few confrontational suggestions and recommendations, and like the arrivals lounge oath to “British values” that feels tailored to appeal to a specific demographic.
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Source: theguardian.com