An unpublished report on The Burnley Project, a two-year Home Office investigation into the 2001 race riots in Burnley, has revealed divisions in young people's attitudes towards ethnicity and faith.
The interim report, The Burnley Project: Evaluating the contribution of interfaith dialogue to community cohesion, carried out by Andrew Holden, academic researcher for the department of religious studies at the University of Lancaster, includes a study of young people's attitudes.
Holden looked at the views of 435 15-year-olds in three schools: School A in Burnley was almost entirely White; School B in Blackburn 96 per cent Asian; and School C, also in Blackburn, mixed (73 per cent White and 27 per cent Asian).
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