The commission will consider innovative approaches to how communities can be empowered to improve cohesion and tackle extremism through consultation and public meetings and events. Its first meeting will be held in September and recommendations are expected in June 2007. Chaired by Darra Singh, chief executive of Ealing Council, the commission will report to Kelly.
The commission comprises 14 representatives, including Decima Francis, founder of the From Boyhood to Manhood Foundation, Hamza Vayani, founder of Youth Voice in Leicester, and Ramesh Kallidai, secretary-general of the Hindu Forum of Britain. Singh said it would need to consider how authorities will be helped to encourage "vigorous and open debate" with people whose voices are not usually heard, including young people.
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