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Organisations

  • Age Concern - the UK's largest charity working with and for older people. Their mission is to promote the well-being of all older people and to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
  • British Institute of Human Rights - works to raise awareness of human rights in the UK by focussing on mainstreaming human rights principles in society.
  • Directgov: Disabled people - the website of the UK government for its citizens, providing information and online services for the public on one website. The 'Disabled People' section provides information such as employment support; financial support; rights and obligations; and everyday life and leisure for disabled people.
  • Equality and Human Rights Commission - has the responsibility to protect, enforce and promote equality across the seven "protected" grounds - age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment. It's activities include enforcing the law, influencing legal and government policy, developing understanding and evidence, and promotional work.
  • Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) - works for local government improvement so councils can serve people and places better. It highlights issues and examples of good practice for local people, focusing on partnership working, place-shaping and tackling cross-cutting issues.
  • Institute of Community Cohesion (ICoCo) - a not for profit partnership, which aims to build capacity at all levels and in all local and national agencies to promote community cohesion. It focuses on building positive and harmonious community relations, using applied research to constantly develop practice and to build capacity of all the agencies and individuals involved.
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation - seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice. The JRF is an endowed foundation that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme and works in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT), a registered housing association.
  • Nacro - a crime reduction charity, which aims to make society safer by finding practical solutions to reducing crime. The charity works to give ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities the help they need to build a better future by running projects across England and Wales and working with national, regional and local agencies.
  • National Youth Agency - supports those involved in young people's personal and social development. It's mission is to enable all young people to fulfil their potential within a just society. Activities include promotional work, provision of support services and influencing youth policy.
  • Stonewall - a lesbian, gay and bisexual charity, which works to promote the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people and their equality within society. The charity is renowned for its campaigning and lobbying activities as well as working with a range of agencies to address the needs of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in the wider community.
  • Traveller Law Reform Project - aims to bring about positive changes in the law in relation to the rights and needs of all the Gypsy and Traveller communities. It also monitors the implementation of current legislation.

Key policies

  • Equality and Human Rights Commission
    • Introduction to the public sector duties. Public bodies in England, Wales and Scotland are subject to the ‘public sector duties’ (PSDs) that place on them a series of legal obligations. The duties are the race equality duty, the disability equality duty, and the gender equality duty. This link provides information about PSDs in general and outlines each duty, who is covered by the duties and how the duties affect the private and voluntary sector and partnerships.
    • Gender Equality Duty. The Gender Equality Duty was introduced into legislation in the Equality Act 2006, amending the Sex Discrimination Act. Public bodies must have ‘due regard’ to the need to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination and harassment (including for transsexual people) and to promote equality of opportunity between men and women.
    • Race Equality Duty. The Race Equality Duty was introduced into legislation in the Race Relations (amendment) Act 2000. Public bodies must have ‘due regard’ to the need to eliminate unlawful racial discrimination, to promote equality of opportunity and to promote good relations between people of different racial groups.
    • Disability Equality Duty. The Disability Equality Duty was introduced into legislation in the Disability Discrimination Act (amended 2005). Public bodies must have ‘due regard’ to the need to promote equality of opportunity, eliminate discrimination that is unlawful under the Act, eliminate harassment of and promote positive attitudes towards disabled people, encourage participation by disabled people into public life and take into account disabled persons' disabilities.
    • Single Equality Duty. The Single Equality Duty is a new Equality Duty announced by the government in July 2008 that will come into force in 2011. This Equality Duty will cover all seven equality strands i.e. race, gender, gender identity, disability, age, religion or belief and sexual orientation and will be a modern, single legal framework, providing a clearer, streamlined law that is more effective at tackling disadvantage and discrimination.
  • Office of Public Sector Information
  • Improvement and Development Agency
  • Communities and Local Government
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