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“Can we say something even if we can’t say everything? can we get in there first before rumours and speculation?” Jen Talbot, Independent Consultant & Mis/Disinformation Trainer for Local Government Association (LGA) on what local authorities can do in this afternoon’s Mis/disinformation workshop.

“It’s important to have a network of people that you can quickly connect with to understand what is going on in the community - from interfaith organisations, faith leaders, school heads & community leaders.” Neil Consterdine, Director of Communities at Oldham Council

Final reflections now from Barnet Labour Party Councillor, Sara Conway, Patrick Hurley, MP for Southport and Muddasir Shah, Integration & Community Engagement Manager at Blackburn with Darwen Council. #Cohesion2025

Southport's MP Patrick Hurley rightly highlighting high street decline and the lack of investment in smaller cities and towns. This creates resentment and falling trust in authorities.

“You walk down any high street in these towns and you see empty buildings, you see the library is shut down, the youth centre is demolished” Patrick Hurley on the role of austerity in contributing to the conditions that led to last summer’s riots.

Huge thanks to all who attended our local government conference, ‘Cohesion challenges and opportunities in 2025 and beyond’ with @spiritof2012 and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov in London yesterday. Here are a couple of images from the day. A full gallery will be available to view soon. #Cohesion2025

Our Belong - The Cohesion and Integration Network and British Future report out today on ‘The State of Us’- strengths and opportunities for cohesion in the UK 👇🏽

This is an important report by British Future & Belong - The Cohesion and Integration Network into the state of cohesion and communities one month after the riots. We’ll be using it as a foundational input to the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Belong & British Future ran focus group & stakeholder discussions across the UK and put out a call for evidence. Although there's a risk of future disorder, there are also reasons for optimism: energetic councils, faith & civil society organisations working hard to bridge divides

“Good work is happening across the UK on cohesion and community strength, but it is patchy and often confined to areas of high diversity or where tensions have spilled over into unrest." Our CEO, Kelly Fowler, on our latest report in today's Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

Our webinar to launch 'The State of Us' report has started, with Kelly Fowler of Belong; Sam Coates and Prof Jagbir Jhutti Johal, members of the new Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion; and Sunder Katwala (Chair). Report co-author Jake Puddle is presents key findings.

Jake Puddle of British Future talks us through the key takeaways from our new joint report, 'The State of Us' on this morning's webinar- including tackling online misinformation, the need for long term national investment in cohesion & addressing concerns on immigration/asylum.

"There is some fantastic work going on & too often these organisations are operating on a shoestring & they are not always treated as partners at local level" Belong's CEO-Kelly Fowler (Kelly Fowler) on the vital but often overlooked cohesion work civil society orgs are doing

Britain is a ‘powder keg’ of tensions which could easily ignite once again, report warns after summer riots independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

“Even in polarising times, one core test of a shared society is how far we can develop a shared story about who we are, how we got here, and where we want to go together.” @Sundersays writes for Eastern Eye about new 'the State of Us' report into UK cohesion [1/3]

Sunder's Eastern Eye column: easterneye.biz/southport-riot…