Sentences with phrase «equality duty»

Public bodies, including further education institutions, local authorities, maintained schools, maintained nursery schools, academies and free schools are covered by the public sector equality duty and when carrying out their functions must have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and foster good relations between disabled and non-disabled children and young people.

Hotak and others v London Borough of Southwark and another [2015] UKSC 30 Acting successfully for the Secretary of State in a leading case on: (i) the scope of the s. 189 Housing Act 1996 «priority need» housing duty, and (ii) the public sector equality duty.

Based on ground - up case law analysis it constructs a new taxonomy on the grounds of judicial review: mistake, procedural impropriety, ordinary common law statutory interpretation, discretionary impropriety, relevant / irrelevant considerations, breach of an ECHR protected right or equality duty, and constitutional allocation of powers, constitutional rights, or other complex constitutional principles.

The general equality duty is currently enforceable only by judicial review proceedings.

The government decided that authorities should not be «burdened» with the requirement to publish the volume of information that the previous government had required them to produce in order to demonstrate that they were complying with the public sector equality duty.

He regularly advises local authorities in relation governance and elections, financial arrangements, borrowing powers, land transactions and regeneration schemes, trading arrangements, powers to charge, Council Tax, equality and diversity obligations (including the public sector equality duty), and vires.

Finally, when considering whether the Lord Chancellor had complied with the public sector equality duty under section 149 of the EqA when introducing the Fees Order, the Court of Appeal considered that the equality impact assessment carried out at the relevant time was adequate to meet that duty.

The Ministry of Justice equality objectives set out how we will comply with the public sector equality duty.

The Ministry of Justice equality objectives set out how we will comply with the public sector equality duty between 2012 - 2016.

It is clear that in any case where the decision may affect large numbers of disabled people, the necessary due regard to the needs of disabled people under the public sector equality duty is very high.

The inadequate consultation, and a similarly flawed equality impact assessment, meant that the council did not have sufficient information to discharge the disability equality duty.

In both cases, the court emphasised the importance of following statutory guidance, carrying out adequate consultation and complying with the general public sector equality duty.

access to public services and the public sector equality duty (in relation to both workforce and service provision issues)

Four issues had been identified by the parties: (i) whether the Court of Appeal had correctly held that the 2009 and 2010 care plan reviews were to be read as including a reassessment of the claimant's community care needs; (ii) whether the authority's decision to provide pads interfered with the claimant's Art 8 rights and, if so, whether such an interference was justified and proportionate; (iii) whether the authority had been operating any relevant policy or practice for the purposes of s 21E (1) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995) and, if so, whether that policy was justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, namely the equitable allocation of limited care resources; and (iv) whether the authority had failed to have due regard to the needs specified in s 49A of DDA 1995 (the general disability equality duty) when carrying out their functions in the instant case.

Also introduced, as a result of the Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2011 (SI 2011/1066), is the public sector equality duty (s 149) and certain exceptions to this duty (see Sch 18).

In the Equality Act 2010 (Public Authorities and Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) Order 2011, (SI 2011/1060) the list of public authorities covered by the public sector equality duty contained within s 149 is expanded.

The Council contended that TfL's decision was unlawful because of a failure to comply with the public sector equality duty; and a failure to take account of relevant considerations.

The public sector duty takes effect as part of the existing public - sector equality duty, rather than as a standalone requirement

«The public sector equality duty had only been in place a month when the Coalition announced the review.

«We have now looked at free schools that have opened in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and over the course of these three years there seems to be very little improvement in terms of commitment to and implementation of equality duties.»

This protection, in turn, offered a shield against public sector equality duties that Baroness O'Cathain and her supporters so feared.

«The research highlights the urgent need to ensure that schools and employers comply with their statutory equalities duties in respect of sex discrimination.

A Labour government will reinstate the public sector equality duties and seek to extend them to the private sector, ensuring all citi] ens benefit from this Labour legislation.

You will find here information about how the school ensures it meets its Specific Equalities Duties (these are things our school must do).

It argues the changes are contrary to the fundamental purpose of the housing benefit scheme and the cuts will disproportionately affect lone parents and ethnic minorities and contravene the government's equality duties.

Needs were assessed and reviewed, and service provision decisions taken, in a way which complied with the general disability equality duties despite the fact that the decision maker had not consciously set out to comply with those duties.

The general disability equality duties contained in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA 1995), s 49A apply to the exercise of a local authority's functions under the community care legislation.

The issue in R (M) v Birmingham CC [2009] EWHC 688 (Admin) was whether a local authority had complied with its general disability equality duties despite not having consciously taken them into account when assessing a disabled person's community care needs and making service provision decisions based on those needs.

● The council's proposals did not render them in breach of its general disability equality duties under s 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

He is particularly experienced in local authority law, in areas such as consultation and equality duties, governance and constitutional issues and public procurement.

Looking at the behaviour of the government in relation to the equality duties under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010), one might be tempted to think not.

In the recent attempt at dismantling the effectiveness of the public sector equality duties under the EqA 2010, two approaches have been adopted by the government.

(ii) while the final Cabinet decision did not recite the various equality duties, it was clear that, overall, the decision and its likely impact had been very carefully considered.

Patrick has been a member of the Attorney General's «B» panel since March 2014, having previously been on the «C» panel, and has acted in numerous claims for judicial review across a range of areas, including prisons, immigration, social security, libraries, human rights and the public sector equalities duty.

Not exact matches

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

The second is the principle which defines the idea of fatherland or nation in the most tolerant and human sense, a principle which guarantees equality of rights and national duties for those of all races, colors, languages, and ideologies existing in the country.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

But traditional Hindu metaphysics, as P.T. Raju points out, has been preoccupied with moksha, the ultimate realization of oneness and equality of all in the Spirit, mostly forgetting that it is necessary to bring witness of oneness and equality within the social structures created for the human pursuit of wealth (artha), temporal happiness (kama) and duty (dharma).

The new Gender Equality Duty (Equality Act 2006), effective from 6 April 2007, requires all public authorities, including those commissioning parenting services, to have «due regard» to the need to promote equality of opportunity between men and women.

The Duty requires that public authorities prioritise actions that result in significant benefits to gender equality (paragraph 2.26 of the guidance).

This approach forms part of our commitment to meet the Public Sector Equality Duty requirement to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and to foster good relations.

Equality Duty We have carefully considered and analysed the impact the design of this website may have on equality, and its possible implications for pupils with protected characteristics.

Not only are the governing bodies of free schools failing in a core function to ensure that statutory duties are met, the Department for Education is also failing to make sure that free schools take promoting equality seriously.

«Ofsted dropped the ball when it stopped inspecting how schools tackle race equality and when it was no longer required to inspect how schools meet their duty with regard to community cohesion.

She also takes over Theresa May's duties as minister for women and equalities.

Congress asserts that statutory codes have a valuable role to play in ensuring that employers comply with their duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination and advance equality of opportunity.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt (left) will add the equalities brief to her duties

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt will assume Ms Rudd's duties as equalities minister.

While Cecil is performing admirably in his duties, his eldest son Louis (David Oyelowo) becomes an activist, determined to secure racial equality.