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Cuts and reforms to EHRC put disability committee’s future in doubt

24/05/2012 – 9:00 am

Cuts to the funding and responsibilities of the equality watchdog could mean that its specialist disability committee is under threat, its disabled commissioner has warned.
Theresa May, the Conservative home secretary and minister for women and equality, this week confirmed plans to scrap some of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) key duties, and slash [...]

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Concern over government’s new assault on equality laws

23/05/2012 – 9:00 am

The government has caused alarm among campaigners by extending its assault on the laws that protect disabled people and other minority groups from discrimination.
Last year, the government announced plans to weaken the “specific duties” that public bodies such as schools and local authorities have to meet to comply with the Equality Act’s single equality duty, [...]

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