| Academics believe the success of BME businesses is partly due to their ability to draw on their families and communities for labour and capital. |
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| It adds that many of the older established BME groups are still finding it difficult, and are in urgent need of advocacy services. |
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| Regionally, London has the highest number of black and minority ethnic businesses with 38 per cent of all BME businesses. |
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| Forty per cent of the Association's contractors are also from BME organisations. |
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| The reception provided an opportunity for BME Councillors across the London boroughs to establish a network of support aimed at addressing the following key issues. |
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| As a recent report of the Audit Commission notes, 75 per cent of Ashram's board members and 71 per cent of senior staff are from BME groups. |
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| There has been active engagement between central government and BME networks and media outlets. |
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| For instance, the Ashram Housing Association is the largest BME association in the West Midlands. |
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| White children were more likely than BME children to prefer and expect to return to the parental home. |
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| However, Johnson is widely seen as winning despite being a Tory, and analysts say his success has not won him significant support from the BME community. |
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| Information on homelessness amongst BME groups is improving, with more statistical collection and the report commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government on BME housing and socio-economic circumstances in Wales. |
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| One of the difficulties that has been encountered concerns the fact that the jobs most of the participants from BME communities could secure are low-paid jobs. |
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| Tai Pawb has been established as the BME housing organisation for Wales, and its role encompasses advising and monitoring local services for homeless people. |
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| In recent years, about a third of BME housing associations have disappeared, merging with other associations, shutting down or being swallowed by larger mainstream organisations. |
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| No one says, let's look at those and how why serve the BME community. |
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| Included here are BME groups who generally experience poorer socio-economic conditions and higher rates of premature death and illness than the white majority. |
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| Local authorities are expected to identify and address the needs of BME homeless people at the local level, which should be reflected in their local homelessness strategies and BME housing strategies. |
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