Whilst the 2001 reports did draw attention to structural inequalities and disadvantage faced by communities and made recommendations for addressing them, it was nevertheless suggested that the community cohesion agenda failed to take full account of socio-economic factors and has been a means of diverting attention away from them.
Indeed, Promoting Social Cohesion: Implications for policy and practice[REF] takes as its starting point the need to reconceptualise community cohesion as social cohesion in order to emphasise structural conditions and equality targets.