National Hate Crime Awareness Week

Today marks the start of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, running from the 8th to 15th October 2016. Our colleagues over at Stop Hate UK and 17-24-30 are doing some great work on raising the profile of hate crime in all its forms, and how we can all work together to stop it.

Although it’s tempting to categorise hate crime as motivated by race, religion, sexual orientation and so on, our belief is that hate crime is motivated by a fundamental fear of difference. This is why the work of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation is so important.

Our society still has a way to go in embracing diversity as a whole, and in particularly neurodiversity – still a new concept for many. However it’s great to see that the issue of hate crime is in the spotlight again this week, and is at the top of the Government’s agenda.