Parliamentary Committee report on Welfare Rights bill
15 December 2011
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Welfare Reform Bill on 12 December 2011 .
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) published its legislative scrutiny Report on the Welfare Reform Bill on 12 December 2011 .
In November 2011, the Council of Europe adopted a Resolution and a Recommendation on ‘The Declaration of Principles on Equality and the Activities of the Council of Europe’.
The Deputy Prime Minister delivered the Scarman Lecture, hosted by the People Can charity, in Brixton on 24 November 2011.
Published in December 2011, the OECD report ‘Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising’ shows rising inequality in OECD countries, with the fastest rise in the UK.
On 1 December 2011, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published ‘Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011’.
‘Bad News for Disabled People’ was published in October 2011. It is a study of changes in the way the media are reporting disability and how it has impacted on public attitudes towards disabled people.
Podcasts from the Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (PEDEC) series of workshops held in 2010 and 2011 are available online.
In 2011, BEMIS published ‘Gypsy Travellers in Contemporary Scotland. The 2001 “Inquiry into Gypsy Travellers and Public Sector Policies”: Ten Years On’.
On 8 December 2011, the CQC published the first reports from a targeted programme of 150 inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities.
‘To Stay or Not to Stay. Retirement Migration Decisions among Older People’ was published by Runnymede in December 2011.