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Riots Communities and Victims Panel - call for evidence

27 September 2011

Darra Singh OBE - Chair of the Panel The Independent Riots Communities and Victims Panel has been set up to examine and understand why the August 2011 riots took place.

The Panel aims to talk directly to people who were affected in their communities including young people, local business owners, parents and residents. It will look at:

the motivation for a small minority of people to take part in riots;
why the riots happened in some areas and not others;
how key public services engaged with communities before, during and after the riots;
what motivated local people to come together to take civic action to resist riots in their area or to clean up after riots had taken place;
how communities can be made more socially and economically resilient in the future, in order to prevent future problems; and
what they think could have been done differently to prevent or manage the riots.

An interim report will be published in November and a final report in March 2012.

The Panel want to hear from as many people as possible and work with academics, Government and other organisations to gather evidence and analysis. Views can be emailed to riotspanel@communities.gsi.gov.uk, or in writing to Riots Panel, 6th floor, Eland House, Bressenden Place, SW1E 5DU. Evidence to be included in the interim report, should be submitted by the end of October.

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