Nicola Bacon and Geoff Mulgan of the Young Foundation write about how wellbeing and neighbourliness can become central to promoting equality at the very local level:

You don't need to look far to see that the neighbourhoods and local communities we live in are changing rapidly. Many places that 20 years ago were relatively homogenous in terms of ethnicity and social class are now much more mixed, as new middle-class residents move into formerly deprived areas and international migration brings new communities to areas of the country that were, until recently, white British mono-cultures.  To respond to these changes policy makers need new lenses. They need to make sense of the complex interactions of race and class that have left some minorities well ahead of the white majority in terms of educational performance and earnings. They need to navigate the balance between supporting distinct cultures and trying to bridge them. But they also need to make use of new tools for bringing communities together, helping neighbours to get to know each other and diverse communities to solve their problems.

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