Home Office: Racial Equality Unit: Registered Files (REU Symbol Series)

Records within this series relate to the promotion of race equality across government, policy on racial equality, criminal law on race, representing UK race equality in international fora (including UN and EU), sponsorship of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) and the Home Secretary's Race Relations Forum, Race Relations Grants (including the replacement of grants made under Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966), religious discrimination and faith issues, the Kosovo Refugees Humanitarian Evacuation Programme and mainstreaming gender within the Home Office.

For race relations legislation see

HO 418

For race relations & displaced refugees see

HO 494

For racial disadvantage see

HO 376

From 2023 Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Topics

Refugees

Religious discrimination and persecution

Race relations

Sex and gender

Local Government

The Race Equality Unit was formed in 1999 by being detached from the Community Relations Unit. It comprised of a Strategy Team, CRE Sponsorship Section, Racist Crime Section, Religious Issues Section, Grants Section, European, International and General Policy Section, Championship for Women Section and a unit for race relations and support for displaced overseas refugees. The latter used the VSU, VCU and VCD Prefixes which formed the HO 494 Series.