Mannie
You're doing a great job of keeping our spirits up! Thanks!
Yvie
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Yvie Holder
Equal Opportunities Adviser
Registrar's Department
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 434681 Email: [log in to unmask]
Emmanuell Kusemamuriwo wrote:
>
> Dear Susanna and other colleagues,
>
> I really empathise with your situation and my advice to anyone who is in
> this position is to genuinely carry on and do what they know they should do.
> The RRAA, as with any other EO legislation is about working towards creating
> best practice for all, by our institutions, both as service providers and
> employers. It is therefore about doing what we genuinely can to adopt a
> holistic approach towards equality as a whole and in all our functions and
> for all, whatever their gender,race,ability, religion/belief,age and sexual
> preference, based on the law of the land.
>
> As institutions,we should always strive to adopt a holistic approach which
> does not seek equality in one area while compacting inequality in another by
> refusing to implement good practice for all. We also have to accept that we
> will not get it right all the time but we should accept that in not getting
> it right we are always developing ways of getting it right. So, let us get
> on with what we can because this is the only way we can then call on those
> others who also have responsibilities and accountabilities within the
> greater scheme of things.
>
> Look forward to comments and/or suggestions. In the meantime, please keep
> going.
>
> Regards
> Mannie.
>
> Mannie Kusemamuriwo
> Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity
> Equality Challenge Unit
> 3rd Floor, Tavistock Place
> London WC1H 9RA
>
> Tel 020 7520 7060
> Fax 020 7520 7069
> [log in to unmask]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susanna Hancock [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 30 January 2002 16:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: : RRAA Specific Duties: Race Equality Policy
>
> Hi, interesting, Faith. I raised a similar issue in my university's
> response to the plans last June.
>
> We take a more wholistic approach at MU. We believe all the eo
> policy should be together, and should relate to all groups which
> are the focus of EO concern. We believe that this is a better way,
> since most people belong to more than one group; eg.: I am a
> disabled woman, and I can find information on gender and disability
> in our policy. Within the eo policy, we have procedures and codes
> of practice relating to diffrent groups within the main policy.
> We are still debating whether to change our eo policy, to make
> Race equality in to a different section, or whether to develope a
> stand alone policy.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Susanna.
>
> Susanna Hancock
> Equal Opportunities Officer
> HRS
> Telephone: 020 8411 6873
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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Yvie Holder
Equal Opportunities Adviser
Registrar's Department
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904 434681 Email: [log in to unmask]
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