Guidance and Codes of Practice

This section sets out all the information available to public authorities on the public sector duties from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and from legacy equality commissions (EOC, DRC, CRE).

Codes of Practice

View the Codes of Practice for the race, gender and disability duties.  These are the statutory guidance on the legal requirements of each duty.

General guidance

See all the general guidance on the duties.  This includes information on equality impact assessments, collecting and using information, ethnic monitoring, consultation, involvement, partnerships, developing objectives, equality schemes, equality in employment, and procuring goods and services.

Sectoral guidance

View guidance on the duties developed for a range of sectors, including central government, health, education, local government, criminal justice and the voluntary sector.

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