While the Corporation does have the power to The points are grouped under three broad headings: (a) for central and national government (b) for regional and local authorities and (c) for private and voluntary bodies. Within each heading the topics are arranged in alphabetical order.

Government Departments, Rodies and Agencies All

1. Review Equal opportunities employment, service delivery and public consultation, and ensure that these refer explicitly to religion as well as to ethnicity, race and culture.

Education

2. Collect, collate and publish data on the ethnic origins and attainment of pupils in all schools, including independent and grant-maintained schools as well as locally maintained schools.

3. Collect, collate and publish data on the religious affiliations of pupils in all schools.

4. Review and if necessary modify the criteria and procedures for providing state funding to religiously based schools, to ensure that they do not discriminate unfairly against Muslim bodies.

5. Make the criteria and procedures for providing state funding to religiously based schools more transparent, and permit appeals against decisions of the Secretary of State.

6. Ensure Muslim educationists, as also educationists from other faith communities, are involved in discussions of education for citizenship.

7. Conduct a review of good practice in the use of Section 11 funding for English language teaching in schools, and be prepared to permit or encourage greater flexibility in the conditions attached to this funding.

8. Issue formally a set of principles for teaching about religion and citizenship in a multi-faith and multi-ethnic society.

9. Develop similar principles about the teaching of history, for example with regard to what pupils learn about the Crusades and about the spread of Islam over the centuries.

10. Give guidance to registered inspectors on points to look for when reporting on the arrangements which schools make for the pastoral, cultural and religious needs of Muslim pupils.

11. Encourage more Muslims to train as teachers, including but not only for the teaching of religious education.

Employment

12. Issue guidelines on good employment practice on matters affecting Muslim employees.

Health

13. Develop guidelines on good practice in health care relating to religious and cultural needs, including the following:

Employment and use of non-Christian chaplains; religious observance; diet and food; respect for cultural and religious norms and injunctions relating to modesty, for example to do with mixed-sex wards and the examination of female patients by male doctors; consultation and contacts with local faith communities; advocacy and befriending services; and general pastoral care in multi-faith settings.

Law

14. Make discrimination on religious grounds unlawful.

15. Ensure that proposed new legislation on racial violence makes reference to religion.

16. When sentencing offenders for crimes of violence or harassment, treat evidence of religious hatred as an aggravating factor, as already with racial violence.

17. Amend the Public Order Act 1986 to make incitement to religious hatred unlawful

18. Review legislation on blasphemy, and include in this a study of relevant legislation in other countries.

Monitoring and Statistics

19. Give a clear lead on ethnic monitoring, aimed at developing coherence in policy, collection, analysis and use, and spreading the best practice which already exists at many local levels.

20. Give a clear lead on the monitoring of racial and religious violence, such that there is greater comparability between the records of different police districts and monitoring groups.

21. Ensure that there is a question about religion in the 2001 census.

22. Ensure that the 2001 census of population contains a question which enables reliable estimates to be made of the size and demographic features not only of Bangladeshi-background and Pakistani-background communities (as in 1991) but also - amongst others of Bosnian, Middle Eastern, North African, Somali and Turkish communities.

23. Provide a breakdown of the broad category 'ethnic minority' in Civil Service monitoring reports and reports on the composition of public bodies, and conduct internal reviews to check whether the South Asian members of the Civil Service and of public bodies appear to include an equitable proportion of Muslims.

24. Continue to monitor the composition of the prison population according to the religious affiliations of offenders.

25. Monitor and evaluate immigration and asylum policy according to religion as well as to race and nationality.

The Prime Minister's Office

26. Propose the appointment of Muslims to the House of Lords.

Social Exclusion

27. Scrutinise measures and programmes aimed at reducing poverty and inequality, for example through the Social Exclusion Unit and the Single Regeneration Budget, with regard to their impact on Muslim communities.

28. Ensure that measures and programmes aimed at reducing poverty and inequality involve Muslims, as appropriate, at the early planning stages.

Local and Regional Statutory Bodies All

29. Review their equal opportunities policies in employment, service delivery and public consultation, and ensure that these refer explicitly to religion as well as to ethnicity, race and culture.

30. In programmes of grants to voluntary organisations, be sensitive to religious and ethical concerns about the use of national Lottery funds.

Education (Local Education Authorities and Schools)

31. Use their influence to ensure that local Muslim communities are appropriately represented on schools' governing bodies, particularly schools which have substantial proportions of Muslim pupils.

32. Encourage mentoring schemes, particularly in secondary schools, which will provide role models for Muslim pupils.

33. Review the definitions of racial harassment used in their policy documentation and programmes of activities, and ensure that there is an explicit reference to religion.

34. Develop written guidelines on meeting the pastoral, religious and cultural needs of Muslim pupils.

35. Encourage more Muslims to train as teachers, including but not only as teachers of religious education.

Housing Authorities

36. Review the definitions of 'racial harassment' in their policy documentation, and ensure that there is an explicit reference to religion.

Health Care Organisations

37. Develop guidelines on good practice in health care relating to religious and cultural needs, including topics such as the following: employment and use of non-Christian chaplains; religious observance; diet and food; respect for cultural and religious norms and injunctions relating to modesty, for example to do with mixed-sex wards and the examination of female patients by male doctors; consultation and contacts with local faith communities; advocacy and befriending services; and general pastoral care in multi-faith settings.

Police Forces

38. When recording acts of violence and harassment which appear to be racially motivated, note acts which have a specifically religious dimension, for example desecration of places of worship, violence accompanied by abuse of religious beliefs and practices, and violence against people wearing distinctively religious dress or symbols.

Voluntary and Private Bodies Employers, Employer's Organisations and Unions

39. Include references to religion in their equal opportunities statements and policies, and state their opposition to discrimination on religious grounds, both in recruitment and in general personnel management.

Funding Organisations

40. In programmes, of grants to voluntary organisations, be sensitive to religious and ethical concerns about the use of charitable and National Lottery funds.

National Union of Journalists

41. Complement its statement and guidelines on race reporting with a statement and guidelines about reporting on culture and religion.

Muslim Organisations

42. Discuss this report and identify the recommendations on which they themselves can take immediate initiatives.

43. Both locally and nationally, press for the implementation of the recommendations in this report.

44. Routinely complain to the Press Complaints Commission and to the newspapers concerned when they consider that coverage of Islam or of Muslims has been inaccurate, misleading or distorted.

45. Draw up action plans on media relations, and rovide awareness-raising sessions and seminars for journalists.

46. Make common cause with non-Muslim organisations to secular bodies, at local as well as national levels.

Non-Muslim Faith Communities

47. Leaders to accept that they have a major responsibility for reducing Islamophobia, and for in no way giving encouragement to it.

48. Routinely complain to the Press Complaints Commission and to the newspapers concerned when they consider that coverage of Islam or of Muslims has been inaccurate, misleading or distorted.

49. Appoint officers, at a range of appropriate levels, to be responsible for inter-faith relations, and give them relevant administrative, financial and institutional support.

50. Discuss Islamophobia directly and to incorporate reference to Islamophobia into their guidelines and policy documents.

51. Make common cause with Muslim organisations to secular bodies, at local as well as national levels.

Political parties

52. Take measures to increase the likelihood of Muslim candidates being selected in winnable seats at the next general election

53. Propose the appointment of Muslims to the House of Lords.

54. Use their influence to increase the representation of British Muslims on Public bodies and commissions.

Press Complaints Commission

55. Review the wording of its code of practice, and consider modifying and strengthening the statement about avoiding racial and religious discrimination.

Race Equality Organisations and Monitoring Groups

56. Address Islamophobia in their programmes of action, for example by advocating and lobbying for the policy and procedural changes included in this list of recommendations.

57. Review the definitions of 'racial harassment' used in their policy documentation, and ensure that there is an explicit reference to religion.

58. Routinely complain to the Press Complaints Commission and to the newspaper concerned when they consider that coverage of Islam or of Muslims has been inaccurate, misleading or distorted.

The Runnymede Trust

59. Ensure that the recommendations in this report are brought to the attention of all relevant bodies.

60. Ensure that actions over the years to implement the recommendations in this report are closely monitored.