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Richard Laux

Richard Laux - Head of Data and Analysis, Race Disparity Unit (RDU)

Why we’ve stopped using the term ‘BAME’ in government

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Richard Laux and Summer Nisar explain why the UK Civil Service has scrapped the label ‘BAME’ in referring to different ethnic minority groups within society. How we write about race and ethnicity matters a lot. As civil servants, we need …

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