On 7 July 2009, the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Carers; Dementia; Disability; Equalities; Ageing and Older People; and Social Care held a Joint APPG meeting on the Green Paper on Adult Social Care.
On 10 June 2009, the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Equalities, Children and Children in Wales held a joint meeting to discuss ‘Children and young people and the age equality provisions in the Equality Bill’.
‘Monitoring update on the impact of the recession on various demographic groups’ was published in June 2009.
In June 2009, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published three documents on attitudes to economic inequality.
‘Gender variance in the UK. Prevalence, incidence, growth and geographic distribution’ was published by GIRES – the Gender Identity Research and Education Society – in June 2009.
In June 2009, Grandparents Plus published ‘The Poor Relation? Grandparental care: where older people’s poverty and child poverty meet’.
Stonewall’s report on ‘Religion and belief and sexual orientation. How to manage relations in the workplace’ was published on 1 June 2009.
‘Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women’s exclusion from power’ looks at why ethnic minority women are excluded from power in the UK.
‘Irregular migrants: the urgent need for a new approach’ was published by the Migrants’ Rights Network in 2009.
In response to a widespread lack of data on the experiences of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the European Union, in 2008 the FRA carried out its first large-scale survey covering all the 27 EU Member States.
