Ethnic Monitoring, Gypsies and Travellers
Ethnic Monitoring, Gypsies and Travellers

Summary/Abstract: Ethnic monitoring plays an important role in the UK in providing a source of evidence that can be used to tackle unlawful racial discrimination and also to develop policies and practices that promote race equality and good race relations. Although, in many parts of Europe, ethnic monitoring is feared, or even prohibited, the experience of ethnic monitoring in the UK has been positive. The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), a publicly funded body set up under the Race Relations Act of 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote equality of opportunity and good race relations, believes that, provided the appropriate safeguards are in place, ethnic monitoring is a powerful lever to bring reform.

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