In January 2012, the EHRC announced that it would use the first two age discrimination cases to be heard by the UK’s Supreme Court to argue for clarification of the law.
In January 2012, the Women’s Resource Centre published ‘Hidden Value: Demonstrating the extraordinary impact of women’s voluntary and community organisations’.
The Government is commissioning a new Equality Advisory and Support Service to provide a high-quality service helping individuals in England, Scotland and Wales who have problems with discrimination.
On 12 January 2012, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published an in-house research report ‘Attitudes to Age in Britain 2010-11’.
Comments of the Government of the UK on the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities Third Opinion on the UK were received on 4 January 2012.
In January 2012, the European Commission launched a special website dedicated to children and young people.
In January 2012, the heads of more than 30 non-governmental organisations, including EDF, wrote to The Times asking that legal aid be protected where it matters most.
In January 2012, brap published a briefing paper entitled ’18 years on: reflections on the Stephen Lawrence verdict’.
Intiated and funded by the Baring Foundation, the Panel on the Independence of the Voluntary Sector published its report in January 2012.
In January 2012, End Child Poverty published the ‘Child Poverty Map of the UK’ report.
