Equality impact assessment publication
Failure to publish Equality Impact Assessments alongside legislation and clarify their legal relationship with duties.
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - Publish Equality Impact Assessment and clarify legal relationship with Equality Act duties.
The Equality Impact Assessment should have been published alongside the Bill to assist parliamentary scrutiny; we look forward to seeing it published as soon as possible. We ask that the Government clarify in that document or elsewhere the intended legal relationship between the clause 18 duty on promoting the interests of disabled people and the anticipatory duty under...
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Committee recommendation
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#13 - Limited equality analysis of Winter Fuel Payment reform failed to assess broader health impacts
The Government conducted a very limited high-level equality analysis of WFP reform, estimating the impact on the number of pensioners in poverty. We heard repeatedly about the possible impacts on their health, as well. While this may be difficult to quantify, a fuller impact assessment, 83 considering the cumulative impact and broader impact of policies and the views...
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Fifth report - Equality in the heart of democracy: A gender sensitive House of Commons
We note that the last Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) of IPSA’s Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs was published in 2017 and its intention to conduct an EIA alongside the next comprehensive review of the scheme, no later than 2024. We recommend that IPSA ensures the EIA is comprehensive and fully in line with the Equality and...
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Committee recommendation
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#33 - Require Government to clarify scale and rationale for planned prison education cuts and their impact
We expect the Government to urgently clarify the scale and rationale for any planned cuts to prison education budgets. It must set out how it plans to ensure that all prisons retain the funding necessary to deliver core education provision. The Ministry of Justice must also publish an assessment of the likely impact of these cuts on prisoner...
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Committee recommendation
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#4 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
The Treasury must provide Equality Impact Assessments for the Industrial Strategy and ‘New Deal’. These should include a Gender Beneficiary Assessment of investments from the industrial strategy to date, including receipts of grants, gender occupational composition of companies operating infrastructure contracts, innovation grants and training participants and outcomes. The Treasury should also undertake an economic growth assessment of...
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Committee recommendation
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#13 - Publish impact assessments for gender-specific programming cuts, no later than report response.
It is astonishing that the Government has made cuts to gender-specific programming without seemingly understanding the impacts on women and girls. The Government must publish impact assessments, as promised by the Minister, as soon as possible and no later than the response to this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 79) 35
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Committee recommendation
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#11 - Publish annual impact assessments for ODA cuts, detailing rationale and alignment with aid objectives.
We recommend that the Government commits to publishing an impact assessment for every year in which cuts to ODA are implemented, including the 2026/27 financial year, and providing rationale for how these decisions align with the impact that UK aid aims to achieve. (Recommendation, Paragraph 39)
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Committee recommendation
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#15 - Pause FCDO restructuring until staffing, skills, equalities, and ODA impact assessments are completed.
We call on the Government to pause the processes currently underway until the following actions have been completed: a. a structured assessment of staffing required to deliver the Government’s priorities both in the UK and in countries with a diplomatic mission, to be presented in a Workforce Plan for this spending review period; b. a thorough skills audit...
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Committee recommendation
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#8 - Fourth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report
The Equality Act 2010’s Public Sector Equality Duty is intended to ensure public authorities have due regard, including in their decision making, policies and service delivery, to achieving the Act’s objectives, which include the elimination of discrimination against groups of people who share a protected characteristic. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published non-statutory technical guidance on...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Government disregarded guidelines and hindered scrutiny of Bill through poor engagement
The Government has neither followed its own guidelines, nor engaged as productively as we would have liked with our Committee over this Bill. The interval between introduction and Second Reading was not long enough for proper preparation by Members of the House. The publication of the Impact Assessment over a month after the Bill was introduced and halfway...
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terms: assessment, impact, publication
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed. Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its...
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s Afghan resettlement schemes (October 2022 – April 2023)
The Home Office should: a. publish its equality impact assessments in respect of Afghan resettlement schemes on GOV.UK, where this would not harm national security or operational effectiveness.
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Committee recommendation
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#10 - Lack of consultation and assessment for property relief reforms causes concern
We are concerned, however, that no consultation, impact assessment, or affordability assessment was conducted before the announcement of the reforms. The lack of proper evaluation of the impact of these changes means that the scale and nature of its impact on family farms, land values, tenant farmers, food security and farmers in the devolved administrations is disputed and...
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Committee recommendation
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#3 - Fourth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report
We welcome the steps the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has taken to emphasise that food retailers’ legal obligations to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people have remained in place throughout the pandemic. We fully endorse its new guidance to food retailers on the steps required to continue to meet their obligations, including in emergency situations. The...
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • making sure it has robust processes in place to do equality impact assessments and reviewing any actions agreed as a result;
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since the last inspection to improve EDI. Recommendation: By 31 August 2022, the service should develop an action plan to: • make sure it has robust processes in place to undertake equality impact assessments and review any actions agreed as a result.
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since the last inspection to improve its EDI. Recommendation: By 30 September 2021, the service should improve the understanding and use of equality impact assessments in all aspects of its work, and consider if its policies and procedures are inclusive and support those with protected characteristics.
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since the last inspection to improve understanding and awareness of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and remove barriers to embedding EDI in the service. Recommendation: By 28 February 2022 the service should develop an action plan to improve the understanding and use of equality impact assessments in...
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Committee recommendation
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#14 - Third Report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people
The Government does not know enough about how Universal Credit is operating for different groups. The Government does not know, for example, how many BAME claimants there are and if they are negatively affected by the Universal Credit application system. We recommend that the Government should make the equality survey that is a part of the Universal Credit...
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Committee recommendation
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#4 - Fourth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report
We further recommend the Government consider, with disabled people, as part of its consultation on the proposed National Strategy for Disabled People, the steps needed to more effectively adopt a social model of disability in relation to maintaining disabled people’s access to food for the remainder of this pandemic and in future crises. This consultation should consider the...
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Committee recommendation
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#31 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We were disappointed that the Government chose to suspend, rather than delay, gender pay gap reporting and enforcement for this year. Given the high number of women who have been furloughed or worked reduced hours due to caring responsibilities, and the evidence of continuing gender inequality in other areas, this should have been a time for more -...
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Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M2.8 - Vulnerable People Framework
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be most at risk of becoming infected by and dying from a disease and those who are most likely to be negatively impacted by any steps taken to respond to a future pandemic. The framework should set...
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since the last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. Recommendation: By 31 January 2022, the service should:- ensure it has robust processes in place to undertake equality impact assessments, implement and review any actions required;
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s processing of family visas September 2021 – February 2022
3. Review and update the existing Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) for Appendix FM to understand the impact on applicants and their dependents who:
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s management of fee waiver applications (August 2024 – November 2024)
Ensure that where significant changes to fee waiver policy and processes are proposed, including but not limited to the triaging of applications by cohort or 29 characteristic(s), these are subject to an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) to ensure that they are compliant with the Home Office’s Public Sector Equality Duty, and determine whether Ministerial Authorisation should be sought...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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25-001-205 - Herefordshire Council
Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint that the Council failed to make reasonable adjustments around accessing one of its Household Recycling Centres. Nor will we investigate Miss X’s complaint the Council threatened to remove her larger refuse bin when she complained, sent her too many communications and failed to carry out an equality impact assessment. There...
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s use of sanctions and penalties
The Home Office should: 1. Carry out a co-ordinated review of current BICS sanctions and penalties, starting with a clear statement of the specific objective(s) of each measure and how the Home Office will monitor and report its performance and outcomes, and including: a. an impact assessment and policy equality statement setting out who will be affected, directly...
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Committee recommendation
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#35 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
The Government should publish proposals for introducing ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting within the next six months.
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Committee recommendation
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#30 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend the Government require all departments to collect and publish data disaggregated by sex and protected characteristics in a way that facilitates reporting and analysis on how, for example, gender, ethnicity, disability, age and socio-economic status interact, and can compound disadvantage.
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Committee recommendation
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#13 - Share DPTAC's policy involvement work plan and publish quarterly impact reports.
The Department should share with this Committee a work plan mapping out DPTAC’s involvement in upcoming policy decisions, and publish quarterly reports detailing the impact that DPTAC has had on the Department’s decision-making. (Recommendation, Paragraph 77)
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Committee recommendation
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#20 - Fourth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report
NHS health and publicly funded social care services are legally required, by the Accessible Information Standard, published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to provide health and care information to patients and service users in a way they can understand. The aim is to ensure a consistent approach to identifying and meeting the...
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HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Since our last inspection, the service has made enough improvement to address two of our previous recommendations. But it still needs to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The following recommendations remain in place. Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should resubmit an action plan that details how it intends to improve the understanding and use...
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Committee recommendation
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#37 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend the Government amend the HR1 form to require information about the sex, race, and if possible other protected characteristics of staff. (Paragraph 146) 44 Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
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Committee recommendation
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#34 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
There have been growing calls for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting. The unequal economic effects of the pandemic have demonstrated the imperative to introduce these measures.
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Committee recommendation
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#6 - Policy change creates disproportionate impact on elderly and terminally ill Welsh farmers.
We are also concerned that the change in policy may have a disproportionate impact on elderly farmers or those with terminal illness who have arranged their affairs on the basis that their estates would not be subject to IHT, and will not have an opportunity to change their succession arrangements in ways which would legitimately minimise any eventual...
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Committee recommendation
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#32 - Set out proposals to strengthen mental health system accountability, including Race Equality Framework implementation.
The sector has called for a Mental Health Commissioner to address concerns about a lack of accountability across the mental health system. The Government has said it does not want to take this approach. We ask it to set out proposals to strengthen accountability, including for implementing the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework in full. (Recommendation, Paragraph...
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Committee recommendation
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#15 - Third Report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people
We further recommend that the Department for Work and Pensions reviews and publishes a report on the barriers to accessing the Universal Credit application system by January 2023. The Department should use the diversity data to assess how BAME Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people 51 people are accessing the Universal Credit system, and it should specifically consider...
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LGO / SPSO decision
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23-020-756 - London Borough of Hackney
Summary: Mr X complained about how the Council monitored and enforced “school streets” traffic restrictions, which restrict vehicles entering the street during school drop-off and pick-up times. The Council failed to consider its duties under the Equality Act in how it considered the impact of its processes on blue badge holders needing to use school streets. It also...
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of visit visa operations December 2022 to January 2023
Ensure that all components of CARS are routinely reviewed, particularly equality impact assessments and risk profiles
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ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the immigration system as it relates to the social care sector (August 2023 to November...
Complete a review of the addition of care workers and home carers to the Skilled Worker route, as committed to in the Equality Impact Assessment of January 2022. Lessons identified in the review should underpin any lessons learned to inform future decisions about how to:
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - Third Report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people
We are deeply concerned by the impact of the zero-hours contracts on BAME people, particularly throughout the course of the pandemic. While in some cases and for some people, the zero-hours contract policy can be a suitable employment option, the pandemic has clearly demonstrated the need to review the way the zero-hours contract policy operates and its impact...
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Committee recommendation
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#33 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend the GEO and EHRC explore the feasibility of reporting on parental leave policies in addition to gender gaps in furlough and redundancies for 2020/21 to supplement the information on pay and bonuses. We also urge the Government to support The Equal Pay (Implementation and Claims) Bill.
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Committee recommendation
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#32 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend that gender pay gap reporting be urgently reinstated, with reporting for the financial years 2019/20 and 2020/21 required in April 2021.
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Committee recommendation
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#29 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
Robust equalities data is crucial to effective policy responses. We have been frustrated by the lack of data disaggregated by sex and other protected characteristics. The lack of intersectional data in large government data sets continues to frustrate meaningful analysis.
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Committee recommendation
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#5 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
Women are traditionally under-represented in sectors that have been singled out for Government investment, such as science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and construction. More must be done to tackle gender inequalities in representation and career progression in these male-dominated sectors so that women do not lose out in the recovery.
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NAO recommendation
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Regulation of private renting
c) Report publicly on progress against its aims for the sector and the impact of its legislative interventions. It should use regular reporting in an open and transparent way to enable public understanding and assessment of progress.
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IMB recommendation
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Thorn Cross (2021)
The diversity and equality action team needs to meet regularly with data being analysed to measure the impact of all areas of the prison’s work and shared with the Board in a timely manner.
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LGO / SPSO decision
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23-017-062 - Northumberland County Council
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about an alleged breach of the Equality Act 2010 and Local Government Act 1999. This is because the complaint does not meet the tests in our Assessment Code on how we decide which complaints to investigate. Breaches of the Equality Act 2010 are matters for the courts. Failure to obtain best...
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Committee recommendation
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#7 - Assess and adjust trade, agriculture, climate, and gender programmes for smallholder farmers.
We recommend the Government assess its trade, agriculture, climate and gender programmes against the impact they have on smallholder farmers. Where necessary, these programmes should be adjusted to mitigate harm against smallholder famers and to enhance their place within sustainable food systems. (Recommendation, Paragraph 29)
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Committee recommendation
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#78 - Commission independent evaluation on designating care experience a protected characteristic.
The Department for Education should commission an independent evaluation of the impact of designating care experience a protected characteristic in those areas where local authorities have adopted this, to assess the impact of this on the extent and quality of support for care leavers in those areas. (Recommendation, Paragraph 197) 94
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