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<p>In the Written Ministerial Statement of 15 December 2020, <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-12-15/hcws652"
target="_blank">HCWS652</a>, the Government outlined how unconscious bias training
fails to deliver value for taxpayers' money and is ineffective. We indicated that
it will be phased out in the Civil Service, and encourage the wider public sector
to do the same.</p><p>Similar principles can be applied to "critical race theory"
training, which is a controversial political ideology. Councils should be seeking
to keep council tax down, and focus resources to supporting frontline services and
covid recovery.</p><p>Moreover, the application of critical race theory to municipal
public services threatens to undermine integration and community cohesion, by exaggerating
differences within local communities; instead, councils should be seeking to build
and strengthen a shared local and national identity across class, colour and creed.</p>
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