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Can we agree a unified definition of ethnicity and a system for recording across agencies?

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Can we agree a unified definition of ethnicity and a system for recording across agencies?

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A John Anthony: Yes, we can and yes, we must is the short answer. It’s interesting in the group I was in led by Adrian Jones from the University of Birmingham – I would commend Adrian to you because he is extraordinarily knowledgeable about this whole issue of ethnic monitoring and carries a lot of experience and knowledge that I think we would find very useful in Devon but, certainly, one of the points that came out of that workshop was the need for a common approach to the collection of data, which is another way of putting the same question. I know that for all of the community safety strategy groups, this is an issue that is currently giving some cause for discussion and concern. I know itÕs difficult and I know we are into things like protocols and constraints of the Data Protection Act but it is absolutely essential if we are talking about working together, that we devise systems which enable us to share information with each other and act in a corporate way. I know also that dif

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