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The UK no longer has a system rigged against people from ethnic minorities, a review set up by No 10 says.
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.
It said children from minority ethnic communities did as well or better than white pupils
The main findings were:
Children from ethnic-minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils the only group to perform less well
This success in education has "transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all"
The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30
Diversity has increased in professions such as law and medicine
A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."
While the "impediments and disparities do exist", it continued, they were "varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism".
The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
But one racial equality organisation says it feels "deeply, massively let down" and the government has lost trust.
www.bbc.com