The quantity of people that see city centres as "protected and welcoming locations for folks of all walks of life" has decreased considerably since 2018, in line with the Good Relations Report.
The Good Relations Indicators 2019 Report from the Govt Workplace set out a spread of figures overlaying areas like hate crimes in addition to attitudes on Protestant/Catholic relations in colleges, neighbourhoods and the office.
It's a part of the Govt Workplace’s T:BUC (Collectively: Constructing a United Group) technique, with the most recent report specializing in youngsters and younger folks, a shared and protected group and cultural expression.
Whereas most of the statistics confirmed enhancements, there was a notable drop within the quantity of people that see city centres as “protected and welcoming locations for folks of all walks of life”.
The determine for 2019 was 63%, which was “a big lower of 4 share factors since 2018”.
Elsewhere, a complete of 39% of adults and 44% of younger folks felt that relations between Protestants and Catholics had improved within the final 5 years.
This represented one other “important lower” for adults of 1 share level, however there was no main change for younger folks.
Over half (54%) of younger folks mentioned that they had ‘achieved tasks’ with pupils from different colleges, 52% had shared courses.
1 / 4 (26%) shared sports activities services or gear the place the pupils are from a unique non secular background.
Taking a look at questions of a shared group, the overwhelming majority of adults (90%) believed leisure centres of their space are ‘shared and open’ to each Catholics and Protestants, with 92% additionally believing the identical about parks, 95% about libraries and 96% about buying centres.
On group occasions, whereas much less folks felt protected on the town centres 91% mentioned the texture ‘very’ or ‘fairly protected’ going to occasions held in a Protestant secondary faculty.
A complete of 89% mentioned they felt the identical about occasions in a Catholic secondary faculty, 70% about occasions in a GAA membership and 66% about occasions in an Orange Corridor.
On issues of cultural expression, three quarters of respondents (76%) felt the tradition and traditions of Protestant communities add to the richness and variety of Northern Eire society, with 73% issues this about Catholic communities and 61% about Minority Ethnic communities.
From 2018, there was additionally “a big improve” within the proportion of adults who really feel they've a say on choices of their neighbourhood, up 6% to 25%.
There was additionally a 6% improve to 25% on the say adults really feel they've about Northern Eire choices.
The total report is out there to view at this location.