This Compass briefing is designed to help activists respond to the Government’s systematic attack on our social security system and provide guidance on how to re-frame the debate.
The National Union of Students has published a report exploring how ‘lad culture’ affects every area of student life to a greater or lesser degree.
Click here for Scottish Parliament 1st Report, 2012 (Session 4): Report on Subordinate Legislation
’Back to basics: Towards a successful and cost-effective integration policy’ by Jill Rutter was published in March 2013 by IPPR.
The heads of international equality and human rights organisations issued a joint statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on 21 March 2013.
In February 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published the UK Government’s replies to a list of issues and questions with regard to the UK’s seventh periodic report.
On 4 March 2013, the Government announced a new network of ‘what works’ evidence centres at an event hosted at Nesta with ESRC, BIG Lottery, Cabinet Office and others.
On 1 March 2013 the Government announced it has no current plans to add caste to the definition of race in the Equality Act 2010.
On 28 February 2013, the Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2013 became law.
On 13 March 2013, the EHRC intervened in a Judicial Review at the High Court into the abolition of the Independent Living Fund, a move which affects 20,000 disabled people.
