Speaking at the launch of the Reach report, communities minister Hazel Blears said the Government would consider how it might support a national role-modelling programme.
Reach, set up in 2006 as a successor to the Stephen Lawrence Steering Group and the Race Equality Advisory Panel, has recommended a network of 20 national "champions" to raise the aspirations of young people, as well as role models at a local level to show how aspirations can be turned into reality.
It says this should be run and managed by an independent agency, and launched at a national media summit to start a debate on changing media stereotypes of Black young people.
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