Engagement on Liverpool Hate Crime Action Plan
Start date: 30th March 2026
End date: 30th April 2026
What are we seeking views on?
Hate Crime is a priority for Liverpool's Community Safety Partnership. Reported hate crime has risen by 7% in Liverpool in the period to March 2025, in common with a national increase.
We need your views on hate crime in the city to help us develop Liverpool's new Hate Crime Action Plan. The plan will set out the actions and activities the council will take, alongside its partners, to reduce and prevent hate crime.
The plan has five draft objectives. These are:
- Raising awareness of hate crime and incidents amongst local communities, partners, schools, and Liverpool staff.
- Improving support for victims and witnesses of hate crime.
- Increasing the reporting of hate crime
- Engaging with residents and community groups to build our understanding of hate crime and help tackle the problem.
- Taking a multi-agency approach working alongside partners to tackle hate crime via problem solving, gathering evidence, and scrutinising cases where necessary.
How to comment
Anyone with views on hate crime and prevention can complete the survey but we particularly wish to receive responses from those who live, work, study, or visit Liverpool, particularly if you have experienced hate crime as a victim or witness.
Complete the online survey now
What happens to my views?
A limited group of officers working collaboratively on the development of the Hate Crime Action Plan will have access to the responses from the survey. The information gathered will help to inform the actions and activities in the final plan.
The views we capture during the survey will be anonymised and also feature in the
- Hate Crime Action Plan Impact Assessment
- Any reports about the Hate Crime Action Plan
- Presentations to colleagues and partners
Views captured during this survey may also be used to inform the new social cohesion strategy development.
The data from the consultation will be kept securely for a maximum of 12 months and then destroyed. Individuals will not be identifiable in any report.
More information can be found in the Liverpool City Council privacy notice.
What happens next?
We will analyse, anonymise and summarise the responses to the survey and use them to help us develop the Hate Crime Action Plan.
Further information
If you have any questions about this consultation, please email CohesionTeam@liverpool.gov.uk with ‘HCAP 2026’ as the subject line. If you need this information in another format, such as braille, audio or hard copy, or in another language please contact us on the email above.
If you have experienced hate crime, either as a victim or as a witness, you can access support from Stop Hate UK or Victim Care Merseyside.