Equality & diversity
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Integrated equality impact assessments – a practical approach
Sub Topic(s):
public sector duties;
Date:
01/05/2009;
Author:
Dianna Yach
Equality impact assessments are an integral part of the public sector equality duties. Dianna Yach explains the benefits of assessments that cover all equality strands and how to go about implementing best practice in this area.
Equality Bill published
Date:
27/04/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
The Government's long-awaited Equality Bill was published this morning. The Bill is 205 clauses and 28 schedules long. The first part of our guide to the Equality Bill will be published in the June EOR and we will be covering the Bill in detail as it goes through Parliament. (more)
Time to end EHRC turmoil
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
22/04/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
As the Equality and Human Rights Commission approaches the end of its first 18 months, it is once again experiencing a crisis of leadership.
EHRC calls for review of equal pay law
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/04/2009;
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wants the Government to urgently commit to a root-and-branch review of equal pay law as it believes the Equal Pay Act is no longer fit for purpose.
Diary: Socioeconomic inequality
Date:
01/04/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
That’s what we’re meant to call the area covered by the Government’s proposals for a public sector duty that would address class discrimination. Since our March edition, the Government seems to have firmed up its plans for legislation, initially set out in the White Paper, New opportunities: fair chances for the future, and elaborated upon in a discussion paper from the Government Equalities Office, Proposed duty on public bodies to tackle socioeconomic inequality.
Diary: Boycotts
Date:
01/04/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Most of us have causes about which we feel deeply and often these involve what is happening in foreign lands, whether it be Tibet or Darfur or Iraq or Swat or Zimbabwe or Gaza, or many other places in the world. To hold each individual citizen personally responsible for a country’s policies that we do not like is different altogether. In essence, it is racist stereotyping.
EHRC to assess impact of recession
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/04/2009;
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to work with the Department for Work and Pensions to assess how the recession is affecting different groups of people, such as women, ethnic minorities and older and disabled people.
EHRC closing helpline centres
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/04/2009;
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has heavily criticised the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) for its plans to axe four of its English helpline centres, leaving one centre in Birmingham.
New equality targets for Fire and Rescue Services
Date:
01/04/2009;
Fire and Rescue Services have set new recruitment targets following a report showing that representation and promotion rates for women and ethnic minorities are too low.
Diary: Equality Bill timing
Date:
01/04/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Ms Harman said that the plan was for the Equality Bill to be published in the first week of April, rather earlier than some previous estimates.
Equality Bill after Easter
Date:
27/03/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
EOR has learned that the Government's Equality Bill is now not likely to be published until after the Easter Parliamentary recess, ie not before 20 April. The latest plan is that the Bill will be published before the end of April, with a Second Reading in the House of Commons sometime in May.
Diary: Class discrimination
Sub Topic(s):
Equality Act;
Date:
01/03/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Harriet Harman, the Minister for Women and Equality, created quite a stir in January when, at the time of the publication of the Government White Paper New Opportunities: Fair Chances for the Future, she seemingly briefed columnist Polly Toynbee of The Guardian that “the Government will create a new over-arching law creating a duty on the whole public sector to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor. This single legal duty will stand as the main frame from which all other equality legislation flows.”
UN accreditation for EHRC
Sub Topic(s):
Equality and Human Rights Commission;
Date:
01/03/2009;
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has received accreditation from the United Nations (UN) as a National Human Rights Institution (NHRI).
Equality reps take off
Date:
01/03/2009;
Union members are signing up in large numbers to become equality representatives in their workplace, according to a recent TUC conference. Among the unions reporting on their equality reps project were Unite (1,000 reps), Unison (650), UCU (280) and PCS (240).
In February's issue (EOR 185)
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Sue Johnstone
This month we cover two aspects of general diversity – the public sector equality duties and procurement. The case digest continues with age discrimination – the first part being in the last issue – reflecting the number of judgments coming from the employment tribunals under this relatively new jurisdiction.
Diary: Equality Bill further delayed
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Michael Rubenstein
Publication of the Government’s Equality Bill, most recently scheduled for April, has now been pushed back yet again to late May or even early June.
Public procurement and the Equality Bill: a modest proposal
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Christopher McCrudden
The Government has indicated that procurement will feature significantly in the Equality Bill, as part of its future strategy on equality. Christopher McCrudden puts forward suggestions for a draft clause to stimulate further discussion on what the Bill should include.
Transport for London: contracting for equality
Sub Topic(s):
policies/best practice;
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Kate Godwin
Only firms that can show a commitment to, and ability to deliver, equality are considered for multi-million pound contracts by Transport for London. Kate Godwin reports on how the transport body incorporated equality requirements on one project and what the outcomes have been.
Brent Council: conducting equality impact assessments
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Carol Foster
Equality impact assessments are a crucial part of the public sector duty to promote equality and eliminate discrimination. Carol Foster examines how Brent Council have successfully integrated the process into their single equality scheme.
The new Equality Framework for Local Government
Date:
01/02/2009;
Author:
Angela Mason
Changes to the local government performance framework, and the proposed introduction of a generic public sector equality duty, prompted an overhaul of the local government Equality Standard. Angela Mason explains the new framework and how it meets the needs of the sector.
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