ABSTRACT
Many commentators believe that the most significant event of 1985 was the publication of the Swann Report, Education For All. This chapter explores how the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) reduces the levels of racial discrimination within the school system or anywhere else. Getting rid of racial discrimination underlies the whole issue of improving relationships. Direct discrimination is always intended so, in that sense, it is easy to get at. Indirect discrimination is a matter of operating systems, applying rules or conditions, which have the effect, whether intended or not, of disproportionately disadvantaging one particular group in ways which cannot be justified. One of the criticisms of multicultural education is that merely swapping meals, socializing between majority and minority groups is not going to, in any deep way, improve relationships which are structurally unsound in other ways. The chapter draws that policy in educating all children for a multi-ethnic society need not be as complex as sometimes supposed.
