http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2659720.ece

Emergency hit squads could be sent to help ease tensions in rural
areas at risk of racially motivated violence, following the influx of
eastern European immigrants.

A government-backed study warned that unrest was in danger of
spreading from inner-city areas to predominantly agricultural areas.
Following a decade of high immigration rates, it called for a new
drive to boost race relations. The study by the Commission on
Integration and Cohesion was commissioned by Ruth Kelly, the
Communities Secretary, in the wake of the July 7 bombings. It
uncovered wide variations in how local authorities coped with
immigrants and set out a range of measures for dealing with rapid
population changes.

Six years after race riots broke out in industrial northern towns such
as Burnley and Oldham, it found problems were developing elsewhere.
Areas such as East Anglia, Lincolnshire and the South-west have
encountered problems absorbing citizens of new EU member states.

The commission suggested setting up a national body to manage
integration which would dispatch specialist teams to support areas
finding it hard to cope with immigration. The squads would advise
councils on easing the strain on services such as schools and
hospitals.

It said local authorities should do more work to identify potential
flashpoint areas and suggested that immigrants are given "cultural
briefing packs" when they arrive in this country to introduce them to
British customs.

The commission called for councils to stop funding organisations that
cater for a single ethnic minority and switch money to those that
encourage integration. It also said less should be spent on
translation into foreign languages and more money on English tuition
and called for big businesses which benefit from foreign workers to be
forced to pay towards English lessons. The report urged that
politicians should avoid "inflammatory statements" by agreeing to be
bound by race relations laws. Ms Kelly said: "This is a wake-up call
to local government that I hope will provoke a real culture change."

The commission published the results of a recent MORI poll which
showed more than half of Britons (56 per cent) believed some groups in
Britain get unfair priority in allocating public services such as
housing, health and schools. It said: "This finding highlights that
people are very sensitive about perceived freeloading by other groups,
and about others getting a better deal than them when it comes to
certain public services. The groups most often named spontaneously
were asylum seekers, refugees or immigrants."