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What’s happening to equality? West Yorkshire Racial Justice Network Arwa Almari – [email protected] 4 th March 2014
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What’s happening to equality?
West Yorkshire Racial Justice Network
Arwa Almari – [email protected]
4th March 2014
Equality of who?
age being or becoming a transsexual person being married or in a civil partnership being pregnant or having a child disability race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national
origin religion, belief or lack of religion/belief sex sexual orientation
Why is equality important?
Outreach
Specialist services
Challenge disadvantaging policy
Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) & Red Tape Challenge
Review of PSED, concerns over the process.
Is Equality Red Tape?
Loss of political leadership on Equality
The employment rate for young black men is 50%8.
Research by the Runnymede Trust identifies that BME female employment is also adversely affected.
Localism
Accountability
Strategic decision making
Resources and Support
The Big Society
Already done by Equality-based VCOs. Voice and involvement Recognise specialist infrastructure Fair funding Fair commissioning Value specialist public service delivery
Immigration Bill
Prevent – Active in Yorkshire
A strand of anti-terror legislation
Runs the risk of criminalising whole communities
Twitter storm on 3rd March #SignsOfARadicalBaby
Universities
Gypsy & Traveller Housing
Wakefield
Shipley & Baildon
York
www.racialjusticenetwork.co.uk
