The Racial Harassment Forum (formerly known as the Mutli-Agency Forum Against Racial Harassment) was established with the overall aim:

"To develop and implement a multi-agency approach to tackle racial harassment in Suffolk"

Its objectives are:-

• To challenge racism amongst young people and the wider community, promoting inclusive and cohesive commmunities that value diversity.
• To encourage victims of racial harassment and violence to report incidents.
• To provide advice, support and advocacy to all victims reporting incidents of racial harassment and violence.
• To coordinate action against perpetrators through partnership working.
• To monitor and record all incidents of racial harassment and the roles and work of groups and agencies across the country , ensuring that quarterly fact sheets are available on line.
• To measure performance against satisfaction levels of service users.  Identifying, implementing and publicising good practice across the county.
• To undertake a full Equality Impact Assessment on policies which cover racial harassment work within the county and to consider a broader hate crime remit. 

If you would like to find out more about the future direction of the Racial Harassment Forum please use the following link The future direction of the Racial Harassment Forum.

If you would like to view the complete Action Plan please use the following link  Racial Harassment Forum Action Plan 2007 -2008