Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair

Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says term risks avoiding real conversation about racism and systemic behaviour

The outgoing chair of the Institute of Race Relations has decried the widespread use of nonsense" unconscious bias training, claiming it is an obvious sidestepping of tackling racial injustice.

The civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod, who is stepping down after 43 years, likened the modish phrase to the 1970s term racial awareness".