Chinese groups in UK are being taught how to handle Covid hate crimes after brutal attack on lecturer
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Community groups supporting Chinese and other East Asian communities in the UK are being trained to support victims of Covid-related racial attacks, after a Chinese lecturer was assaulted last week. Police data indicated a 300 per cent increase in hate crime reports from British Chinese, East and South East Asians in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019. The project, called Confronting Covid-Related Hate, will “support victims of hate crime and abuse”, as well as help build relationships across community groups, local authorities, police and frontline service providers. Lisa Yeung-Donaldson, of the Chinese Welfare Trust, wrote in the Crown Prosecution Service’s Hate Crime Newsletter in February: “With the support of an independent Review Group, longer-term sustainable strategies will be explored, including the formation of a national hub-like network of local hate crime reporting or support centres.”
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