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<p>Libraries play an important role in giving everyone opportunities to improve their
life chances and achieve their full potential. In doing so they serve a diverse range
of people from all backgrounds, including those in lower socio-economic groups. In
addition, DCMS’s Taking Part Survey indicates that unlike other cultural sectors,
public library use in 2017/18 by people in black or minority ethnic groups is significantly
higher (40.9% having visited a public library in the previous 12 months) than for
people in the white ethnic group (31.7%).</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of this, the
Government funds the Libraries Taskforce to encourage good practice and innovation
to public library services in achieving the strategic outcomes set out in its 2016
strategy Libraries Deliver: Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-2021. DCMS
also invested £3.9 million in the Libraries: Opportunities for Everyone fund to support
innovative library service activity in 2017/18 to benefit disadvantaged people and
places in England, including projects to help people develop their skills and achieve
their potential.</p>
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