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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 13 Feb 2019
Advice for advisers on discrimination at work.
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 13 Feb 2019
A toolkit for advisers on housing discrimination.
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Blog
Published: 11 Feb 2019
What are we doing to help people who have experienced discrimination get justice?
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First Published: 08 Mar 2019
This report looks at the quality of the available data on the diversity of candidates and elected officials at UK, national and local election levels. It aims to identify where there are data gaps and limitations.
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First Published: 08 Mar 2019
This report brings together desk research into the diversity of elected officials and research with candidates for election at the Scotland local authority elections in 2017.
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News
Published: 08 Mar 2019
Our study into the experiences of Scottish local elections candidates has revealed a clear lack of diversity among councillors.
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First Published: 15 Mar 2019
This report summarises the findings for Scotland from a cumulative impact assessment of the impact on protected groups of:changes to the tax and social security, public spending since 2010
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Our inquiry looked at whether legal aid enables people who raise a discrimination complaint in England and Wales to get justice.
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Blog
Published: 17 Dec 2019
Caroline Waters discusses how local leaders have an opportunity to shape the economic futures of their own areas.
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 01 Sep 2021
Get straight-forward advice to help ensure the difficult decisions you make during the coronavirus pandemic don't discriminate against employees.
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Blog
Published: 16 Jul 2020
Chief Executive Rebecca Hilsenrath discusses our position on potential reforms to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004.
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First Published: 10 Aug 2020
Research findings about the public's attitudes to transgender people, based on data from the 2019 BSA survey.
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News
Published: 10 Aug 2020
A majority of the public view transphobia as wrong according to the latest figures from a survey we commissioned.
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News
Published: 14 Oct 2021
Car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has signed a legal agreement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to improve its policies and practices in relation to equality and diversity.
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News
Published: 04 Apr 2022
As the statutory regulator charged with upholding equality and human rights laws and standards, we protect all people in Britain against discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics. It is an important part of our role to explain how the law works in practice.
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News
Published: 04 Apr 2022
A practical guide to the law in relation to single-sex spaces has been published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) today. The guidance helps service providers to make lawful decisions about any services they offer to women and men separately, by explaining the permitted sex and gender reassignment exceptions in the Equality Act 2010.
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 19 Feb 2020
The Equality Act became law in 2010. It covers everyone in Britain and protects people from discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation.
The information on the Your Rights pages is here to help you understand if you have been treated unlawfully.
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 08 Apr 2021
Read our guidance to support Scottish public authorities in meeting their duties under the Public Sector Equality Duty.
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 19 Feb 2019
Read about 'Improving Equality Outcomes' - a projects that's part of the Scotland public sector equality duty
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Advice and Guidance
Last updated: 19 Feb 2019
Read about the Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Project that's part of the Scotland public sector equality duty
