00:00A major report says the sense of social disconnection that fuelled last summer's riots remains a serious threat.
00:08Three children were killed during a dance class in Southport on the 29th of July 2024.
00:13In the wake of that tragedy, unrest broke out across the country.
00:17Violence scenes erupted from Southport to Stoke-on-Trent.
00:20We've been on the streets of Liverpool to ask what sense of community you have.
00:25I feel like Scousers are always friendly to one another.
00:27Everyone wants to help one another. Everyone's friendly with one another.
00:32So I feel like the community is good.
00:35It's never been a community.
00:39So many different changes and I don't feel as if, I don't know.
00:45Sometimes I feel a little bit apprehensive, but I still get on with my daily life and I have to do things.
00:53Probably quite good actually, yeah. Probably quite good.
00:56It's anywhere in Liverpool, I think, most communities pull together, you know, and they do things together.
01:04They support each other.
01:06So, yeah, I think communities in Liverpool are pretty good.
01:10Now, a new report from UCL Policy Lab, Citizens UK and more in common, suggests that the growing sense of social dislocation was a key driver of the riots and remains a serious concern for the future.
01:23The analysis reveals that while levels of community connection vary significantly across the country, constituencies experiencing unrest tend to exhibit lower levels of social connection.
01:33This is underlined by the fact that integration, not immigration, is key to understanding the riots with deprivation having clear impact by post-industrial communities and those feeling neglected struggle with their subjective sense of social connection.
01:47Those communities that saw riots often reported a much lower sense of social connection than others.
01:53There is a lot of changes by where I live anyway.
01:56I do think, I do think, I do have a theory that people who do come here, integrate is the word.
02:03It's up to them to integrate into our communities, totally.
02:08I think if people would be a bit more friendly, but I don't think you're going to get that, because I think they're all doing their own little thing.
02:18I mean, I've lived abroad, I've worked and lived abroad all my life, especially in 13 years in Southeast Asia, and wherever I worked and lived, I integrated into that community.
02:30I learned the language and their way of life, you know, and then eventually I went to live in Spain as well, and I integrated, you know, into their way of life.
02:40Areas with high rates of multi-ethnic households, a good proxy for inter-ethnic mixing, tend to report stronger feelings of connectedness and were less likely to have experienced unrest in summer 2024.
02:53However, where different communities live parallel but separate lives, feelings of mistrust and alienation are more common.
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