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Government refuses to research hate crime impact of special schools

27/07/2012 – 10:00 am

The Department for Education (DFE) has rejected a key recommendation of the equality watchdog’s disability hate crime inquiry, which could have undermined the government’s anti-inclusion stance on the education of disabled children.
Although most of the recommendations of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Hidden in Plain Sight report were accepted by the government this [...]

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Hate crime sentencing breakthrough

12/11/2011 – 9:00 am

Disabled activists have welcomed a campaigning breakthrough after the government agreed to correct a major disparity in the sentencing of disability hate crime murders.
Justice secretary Ken Clarke announced that the government would introduce amendments in the House of Lords to ensure that the “tariff” for disability-motivated murders would match that for other hate crime murders.
There [...]

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