[PDF] Top 20 Equality information and the equality duty: A guide for public authorities

... interpreting information about someone’s religion or belief because of the varying levels of commitment that people who identify themselves as belonging to a particular religion ...the duty also applies to ... See full document

... This guide is a practical explanation of what can be done to ensure authorities are meeting the equality ...the public sector equality duty, which can be used as evidence in ... See full document

... and equality groups that people with a disability are 50 per cent less likely to use their adult learning services as non disabled ...with equality groups as well as a reference group of disabled people to ... See full document

... to equality, scoping gives you an opportunity to establish basic systems that will be helpful for your equality ...to equality and which aspects have particular importance to ...general ... See full document

... the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, to exclude a prospective tenderer if they have been found by a court or tribunal to have breached equality law, and if they are unable to provide evidence of how they ... See full document

... Action to end discrimination, for example, actions to measure the gender pay gap, to identify and eliminate any structural gender discrimination in pay systems and to ascertain where women are doing equal work to male ... See full document

... In Hackney 60 members of staff, 20 service users and a local councillor have been recruited as volunteer ‘Human Rights with Dignity Champions’. Working in the community they cascade information about rights work ... See full document

... race equality, the authority may find it useful to draw up a clear statement of the aims of each function or ...has information about how different racial groups are affected by the function or policy, as ... See full document

... gender equality objectives, and setting out the actions it intends to carry out to achieve them, each public authority will have to develop an understanding of the major gender equality issues in its ... See full document

... the Equality Act 2010 (applicable in England and Wales and in Scotland) imposes broad obligations on all public purchasers to promote equality (gender equality, racial equality etc) in ... See full document

... successive equality duty. In the Race Equality Duty the specific duties included an ‘expectation’ that groups affected by their policies and their provisions to meet the duty will be ... See full document

... inadequate information before her of the likely impact of closure of the Independent Living Fund on the independence of those disabled people in receipt of payments from ... See full document

... The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions would have the whole of the benefits system as a key policy sector. However, within this there are a range of other public authorities which play a significant ... See full document

... general duty is to make racial equality a central part of the way public authorities work, by putting it at the centre of policy making, service delivery, regulation and enforcement, and ... See full document

... Johnston and Bohaker both focus primarily on establishing that doodem identities were historically central to the treaty relationships forged between Anishinaabe and colonial/settler state parties. Both of these authors, ... See full document

... The Commission, seeing national public authorities as having a crucial role in the implementation of equality for women, has recommended urging Member States to institute firmly entrench[r] ... See full document

... far authorities already had anti-discriminatory policies and practices in ...Disability Equality Impact Assessment; most of them reported having changed aspects of policy and practice in employment and ... See full document

... single equality duty argued that it would promote mainstreaming, making equality central to a range of public policy debates and reducing the risk that the issue would become side-lined ... See full document

... provide information at the national, regional, local authority and ward ...detailed information at a ward ...local authorities may hold data on the racial composition of the population from household ... See full document

... One of the legal requirements underlining the DED and set out by the DRC in their code of practice (DRC, 2005) was to involve disabled people in the production of DES. The level of involvement underlines the focus on ... See full document