Sentences with phrase «equality impact assessments»

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.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) is denying claims that it has been forced to undertake race equality impact assessments on legal aid reforms after judicial proceedings were launched against it.

The Black Solicitors» Network (BSN) and the Society of Asian Lawyers (SAL) launched the proceedings against the government, claiming they had failed to carry out a proper race equality impact assessment under the Race Relations Act 1976 in relation to the legal aid reform programme.

A commitment to conducting full equality impact assessments of spending policies will be essential to ensure that policies are responsive not just to the geography of the region but to the diversity of the communities served.

Ministers did carry out equality impact assessments looking at whether the cuts would have a disproportionate effect on women, Black, Asian and minority ethnic individuals and disabled people.

The Court of Appeal also dismissed the appeal against the Divisional Court's grant of declaratory relief only for a breach of the section 149 PSED, where a full and unchallenged equality impact assessment had been carried out prior to the hearing and had resulted in changes to the scheme.

Congress applauds the efforts of TUC affiliates in pressing for equality impact assessments to thwart attempts by the coalition to dilute workers» rights.

Although government agreed to retain the use of CCTV outside schools, as well as at bus stops, in bus lanes and on red routes, they failed to carry out an equalities impact assessment for these proposals, placing vulnerable road users such as wheelchair users and parents with buggies at risk when crossing road junctions protected by yellow lines.

The Law Society calls upon the Lord Chancellor to commission and publish an equality impact assessment on his proposed changes prior to implementation of the same.

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.