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UK: Government scrap equality duty = bad news for disabled people and other marginalised groups
Posted 26/11-10 at 21.41
The Home Secretary, Teresa May, has announced that the government will remove the socioeconomic duty, due to come into force from April 2011, from the Equality Act. The duty, a key part of the Act, would have required all public bodies to assess whet ...
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UK: Equality Act passed
Posted 17/04-10 at 03.16
Almost two years after the Bill was published, the Equality Act was finally passed on April 8th, 2010. The Act brings 9 equality acts and over 100 other measures together in a single act. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ...