UK government to scrap ‘BAME’ in response to race inquiry

Response to Sewell inquiry also lays out plans for greater police scrutiny and a model history curriculum'

Ministers will drop the term black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME), beef up local scrutiny of police stop and search and draft a model history curriculum to teach Britain's complex" past in response to the Sewell report on racial disparities.

Launched as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests, the Sewell report caused controversy when it was published last year for broadly rejecting institutional racism as an explanation for many of the challenges faced by ethnic minorities in the UK.