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Dear
Why
am I writing to you?
I
am writing to you from the Winning the Race Coalition to express strong support
for an important amendment (set out below) that is due to be considered during
the Equality Bill’s report stage.
We
support the amendment, and hope that you will as well, because the amendment:
§ makes
it clear to public bodies, and those exercising public functions, that they
must act and take proportionate steps towards the achievement of equality
of opportunity in giving due regard to their public sector equality duty;
§
is a sensible and reasonable approach;
§
would apply equally to
§
is in line with the cross party support expressed for the
public sector equality duty and cross party calls for clarity about the
implementation of the duty.
Who
else supports the amendment?
We
understand that this amendment is supported by the Equality and Human Rights
Commission and by a range of organisations including Citizens Advice, the
Discrimination Law Association, the Disability Charities Consortium, the Equality
and Diversity Forum, the Equality Bill Alliance, Equanomics UK, the 1990
Trust, ROTA, Unison and Winning the Race Coalition.
The
amendment
The
correct page and line reference, in the printed version of the Bill as
approved by Lords Committee is
Clause 148
Page 95 line 39 Insert new subsection ( )
" ( ) To comply with
the duties in this section a public authority in the exercise of its functions,
or a person within subsection (2) in the exercise of its public
functions, shall take all proportionate steps towards the achievement of
the matters mentioned in (a), (b) and (c) in subsection (1)”.