A youth select committee report has warned that racism and religious discrimination have become so normalised among young people that many see it as just "banter".
The group, hosted by the British Youth Council and made up of 11 young people aged 15 to 19, chose the topic as its focus for the year after racism and religious discrimination topped a 2015 ballot of nearly one million young people.
In Young people and the issues of racism and religious discrimination, the committee makes a series of recommendations for schools, local authorities and government based on written and oral evidence it received (see below).
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