Hate Crime – The Cross-Government Action Plan

Hate crimes are crimes motivated by prejudice or hostility based on the victim’s disability, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or whether they are transgender.  There is a spectrum of hate crime which runs from daily abuse through to violent extremism.  Hate crimes spread fear amongst communities and are a threat to community cohesion. 

This Action Plan sets out the challenges we face in tackling hate crime and how we are going to meet these challenges in the short to medium term.  This is the first time all government action to tackle hate crime has been brought together in one place.

The Action Plan is available below in several formats.

Date: Tue Oct 13 14:50:00 BST 2009

• Hate crime: the cross-government action plan (PDF file - 539kb)

  The government’s action plan to tackle hate crime in the short to medium term.

• Hate crime action plan - easy read version (PDF file - 458kb)

  An easy read version of our action plan to tackle hate crime.

• Hate crime action plan - Welsh language version (PDF file - 403kb)

  This is the Welsh language version of the action plan to tackle hate crime.

• Hate crime action plan - audio version (PDF file - 419kb)

  This version of our action plan can be read out loud by your computer. To access this function you firstly need to save the document: right-click with your mouse and select 'Save Target As' or 'Save Link As'. Choose a location to save the file (somewhere you'll remember like your My Documents area) and click on the Save button. Then find your document (in the folder you saved it in) and open it. To turn on the Read Out Loud function, (a) click View in the toolbar (b) then click Read Out Loud in the menu (c) followed by clicking Activate Read Out Loud. To begin Read Out Loud, (a) click View in the toolbar (b) then click Read Out Loud in the menu and (c) then either Read This Page Only or Read To End of Document.

• Equality impact assessment report on the cross-government hate crime action plan (PDF file - 193kb)

  The report of the equality impact assessment of the cross-government hate crime action plan.

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