It isn't necessarily as positive as that. This "community" language is often patronizingly racist. Whenever some ethnic minority gets uppity, the state issues an appeal for "youth" to defer to "community leaders". The idea seems to be that non-white residents in the UK are (or ought to be) subject to some sort of social organization like that of British colonial Africa or India, where local indigenous rulers did the British administration's dirty work for it by clapping unruly elements in irons, flogging them as necessary and handing them over to the colonial police. In recent years, Muslim clerics in particular have been subject to what amounts to conscription into the secret police.

Nobody ever expects white Britons to have "community leaders" or take orders from them.