HELP END TWO-TIER BRITAIN
The death of Henry Nowak has shone a light on something many serving and retired police officers have known for years: that race-based policies, training programmes, and institutional pressure have distorted how officers make decisions, and who gets protected.
But policing is only the most visible symptom of a wider problem. Across policing, the courts, and our schools, Britain is increasingly run on two sets of rules, one for favoured groups, and another for everyone else, including white working-class boys and men who are too often treated as the one group it's acceptable to overlook.
In the courts: Labour's Justice Secretary tried to force through Sentencing Council guidance requiring judges to routinely order pre-sentence reports. These reports can lead to a lighter sentence, for offenders from ethnic, cultural or faith minorities, while no such presumption applied to everyone else. Even the Justice Secretary herself called it "two-tier sentencing" before the government stepped in with emergency legislation to block it. That the guidance had to be stopped by ministers doesn't mean the instinct behind it has gone away, the same thinking runs through public institutions, and it deserves to be challenged wherever it appears.
In our schools: Parliament's own Education Select Committee found that white working-class pupils, and white working-class boys in particular, have been consistently overlooked, describing a system that has "let down and neglected" the very children it should be trying hardest to help, while ministers have shown little appetite for asking why. Whole communities are told to check their privilege while their own children fall further behind.
In policing: race-based policies, unconscious bias training, and institutional pressure have distorted decisions on the street, in custody, and in disciplinary proceedings, protecting some and exposing others.
If you have experienced or witnessed any of this first-hand , as a police officer, teacher, court professional, parent, or public servant, we want to hear from you
This is a confidential submissions page. Your identity will not be published, shared with your employer or institution, or passed to any third party. Our office will review all submissions and may use anonymised accounts to raise the issue in Parliament, with relevant Secretaries of State, and in the press.
You will be protected. You will not be named.
WHO WE WANT TO HEAR FROM
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Serving or retired police officers who have felt pressured to make decisions differently based on the race of the person involved, or who have witnessed colleagues treated differently in disciplinary proceedings because of their ethnicity
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Magistrates, judges, probation staff or court professionals with direct experience of how the pre-sentence report guidance was applied, or pressure to factor in an offender's background in ways that go beyond individual circumstance
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Teachers, governors or school staff with direct experience of white working-class pupils, and particularly boys, being deprioritised in funding, pastoral support, or targeted intervention
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Anyone subject to mandatory EDI, unconscious bias, or anti-racism training they believed was ideologically biased or professionally damaging
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Anyone who was passed over for promotion, investigated, or disciplined in circumstances they believe were influenced by their race, background, or refusal to go along with these policies
WHAT TO INCLUDE
You don't need to write at length. Even a brief account is valuable. If you're comfortable, include:
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What happened, and roughly when
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The organisation involved (police force, court, school, employer), this will never be published, it helps us assess patterns
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Your role at the time
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Whether you raised it internally, and what happened if you did
Your submission is received securely by Suella Braverman's parliamentary office only. It will not be shared with your employer, the College of Policing, the IOPC, the Department for Education, or any other body. Anonymous accounts may be used in Parliament or the press, but only in a form that cannot identify you. If you have concerns before submitting, contact the office directly at suella.braverman.mp@parliament.uk
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