Since becoming London’s first ever Deputy Mayor for Social Integration in 2016, the three big questions I am always asked are: What is “social integration”? How do you measure it? How do you improve it? The answers to the first two questions always take a little while to explain – and the Mayor has answered those, in detail, in London’s social integration strategy that he launched on the 14th March. But there is a quick answer to the third: volunteering.
Of course, volunteering is not the only way to improve social integration, nor does it solve every problem on its own. But it is a hugely important tool that government and local authorities can use to bring people together.
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