Tackling prejudice and building connected communities action plan: implementation overview

8. Implementation at a glance

This list below provides a simple overview of the progress made on each of the actions in the Tackling Prejudice and Building Connected Communities Action Plan. It indicates whether the policy:

• has been completed*
• is ongoing**
• is at an early stage of development, or
• has been paused

* Some of the actions will have their status marked as complete as they were required to be carried out within a specific timeframe and the action initially identified was completed; however, activity may be continued in the area and this will be reflected in the update.

** Actions may be marked as 'ongoing' for the same reason. Our work in respect of tackling hate crime, eradicating prejudice and building community cohesion is long-term and fluid in nature and will extend into the creation of a new hate crime strategy.

Action Status

1. Establish a national multi-agency delivery group with ministerial oversight to take forward the implementation of the 2016 Advisory Group's recommendations

Complete

2. Establish an Advisory Panel on Community Cohesion, to provide expert advice on how we can strengthen our approach to building cohesive communities and safeguarding people from harm

Paused

3. Review our approach to engaging with communities, to ensure that we are aware of their issues and concerns

Complete

4. Work with disabled people's organisations to implement our action plan on disability 'A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People' to address the underreporting of disability hate crime

Complete

5. Work through the Race Equality Framework to engage with minority ethnic communities in building community cohesion and safety, and improving the lives of Scotland's minority ethnic communities

Complete

6. In summer 2017, set out a range of initiatives supported through our Equality Budget that will contribute to tackling hate crime and prejudice, and building community cohesion

Complete

7. Work with the Scottish National Equality Improvement Programme to share best practice around fostering good relations in communities and consider what further guidance and support may be required to enable them to do this

Ongoing

8. Set a specific outcome within our Equality Outcomes on hate crime, and report on progress through our Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes publication

Complete

9. Consider the recommendations of Lord Bracadale's independent review of hate crime legislation, and set out how we intend to implement these

Complete

10. Engage with key stakeholders to consider further steps to prevent and tackle online hatred and misogyny

Ongoing

11. Publish guidance for delivery of restorative justice in Scotland which will ensure that where restorative justice processes are available, these will be delivered in a coherent, consistent, victim-focused manner across Scotland

Complete

12. Engage in dialogue around definitions and terminology, taking account of any conclusions that Lord Bracadale's review of hate crime legislation may offer in this regard

Complete

13. Adopt the international definition of antisemitism, and engage with stakeholders on how this translates into improved practice on the ground.

Complete

14. Develop our approach to gathering evidence around hate crime, and bring forward a new hate crime publication later in 2017

Complete

15. Work with the STUC and others to gather evidence of hate crime experienced within the workplace, with an initial focus on front line workers

Not progressed

16. To better measure progress in this area, strengthen National Outcome 11 of the National Performance Framework which focuses on our efforts to build strong, inclusive and supportive communities and ensure that the rights and wellbeing of Scotland's minority communities are central to our business

Complete

17. Develop a public awareness campaign around the impacts of hate crime in partnership with stakeholders, and run this later in 2017 to coincide with wider awareness-raising initiatives

Complete

18. Through the newly established multi-agency delivery group, consider how to break down barriers to reporting and inform this with Police Scotland's work on developing the third party reporting infrastructure

Paused

19. Agree a hate crime charter with public transport operators which provides clear, common standards and consistent processes for dealing with hate crime on public transport

Complete (for bus and rail)

20. Progress the implementation of 'the Scottish Government's' relationships and behaviour policy, which supports local authorities and schools to further improve relationships and behaviour in their learning communities

Complete

21. Publish a refreshed approach to anti-bullying, including prejudice-based bullying

Complete

22. Consider learning from evaluation of the education inspection indicator relating to inclusion, and work with Education Scotland to ensure that best practice is disseminated

Complete

23. Explore further the potential of youth work (as a model of peer-led intervention) to contribute to tackling hate crime and prejudice

Complete