The Young Review: Ten Years On

DECEMBER 2025

The Young Review: Ten Years On, produced by Action for Race Equality in partnership with Clinks, revisits the original 2014 Young Review and assesses what has – and has not – changed for Black and Muslim people in the criminal justice system.

Drawing on the latest data and insights from statutory bodies, voluntary sector partners and people with lived experience, the briefing provides an up-to-date picture of disproportionality, discrimination and stalled progress across prisons and probation. It highlights where limited reforms have been made, where longstanding gaps remain, and outlines the wider systemic changes still required to tackle entrenched racial and religious disparities.

NOVEMBER 2025

On 5 December 2024, four national infrastructure organisations, Action for Race Equality (ARE), The Ubele Initiative, Voice4Change England, and Olmec, came together to host the National Capacity Building Conference, which looked to tackle an all-important question: “What ‘Really’ Works for Black and Asian-led Organisations?”

This event brought together over 40 organisations, including practitioners, community leaders, and funders, to examine how Black and Asian-led ‘by and for’ organisations can be better supported to grow, sustain their work, and strengthen their long-term impact.

From Recognition to Remedy: A Roadmap for the new Windrush Commissioner

JUNE 2025

Seven years after the Home Office Windrush scandal made headlines, victims and survivors are still waiting for justice. While the Labour government has made progress by appointing a new Windrush Commissioner, Reverend Clive Foster MBE in June, the road to repair and restitution remains long. Our briefing, developed in collaboration with 26 Windrush advocacy groups across the UK, provides practical recommendations for the incoming Windrush Commissioner to move from recognition to remedy.

Policing & the Black Child Conference Report 2024

APRIL 2025

The report, derived from the discussions and insights shared at the most recent Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) conference, sheds light on the systemic failures in policing practices that disproportionately harm Black children in London.

Serving as both a reflection and a call to action, the report urges key stakeholders, the Government, the Mayor, and the Commissioner, to take immediate action to address entrenched racial disparities, safeguard vulnerable children, and rebuild trust between communities and law enforcement through actionable, community-driven solutions.

SEPTEMBER 2024

This paper draws on the knowledge exchanged at a series of roundtable events held by the Alliance of Racial Justice in April 2024, to form recommendations on strengthening the ability to challenge and end institutional racism.

It takes a look at existing equality legislation – namely the Equality Act 2010 – and calls on government to make updates to this key part of the UK’s commitment to tackle racism in public bodies.

JUNE 2024

The Manifesto for Windrush Justice calls for faster, fairer and more just systems to rebuild trust, repair harm, and heal the ‘unconscionable’ trauma inflicted upon the Windrush Generation and their descendants by the Home Office’s Windrush Scandal. It was developed in collaboration with grassroots advocacy groups under ARE’s three-year Windrush Justice Programme, the Manifesto also incorporates insights from a survey of 1,200 individuals.

JANUARY 2023

This policy briefing is based on research developed as part of the project ‘Ethnic Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System’ funded by ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK), an Economic and Social Research Council investment (part of UK Research and Innovation). It takes a comprehensive look at uniquely linked data from Crown Court and magistrate’s databases from the Ministry of Justice’s Data First programme to understand ethnic disparities in remand and sentencing.