ESF-Age Network
20 November 2012
The ESF-Age Network consists of public authorities from 16 EU-member states and regions.
The ESF-Age Network consists of public authorities from 16 EU-member states and regions.
In October 2012, Runnymede’s final Financial Inclusion report was published: ‘A Sense of Place – Retirement Decisions among Older Black and Minority Ethnic People’.
The ban on age discrimination in the provision of services came into force on 1 October 2012.
‘Delivering the Equality Duty. Age matters in public services’ was published by Age UK in October 2011.
The Government Equalities Office provides a range of guidance to support the implementation of the age discrimination ban that commenced on 1 October 2012.
‘Getting off lightly or feeling the pinch? A human rights and equality impact assessment of the spending cuts on older women in Coventry’ was published in July 2012.
In July 2012, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights submitted a report to the Economic and Social Council considering the human rights situation of older people.
The Department for Work and Pensions published the ‘National Social Report’ in May 2012.
Date 24 April 2012 Link to judgment http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/496.html Discrimination grounds Race, disability, gender, age. Summary of case The Greenwich Community Law Centre challenged the decision
The Council of Europe has created a new drafting group to develop an instrument for promoting older people’s human rights.