Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached, the latest from the ECU, on following up the HEFCE
English HEIs' Race Equality Policy and Action Plans Review findings.
As you refer to these exemplar policies and action plans, remember they are
exemplars of where the starting point is and not the end point, as far as
the RRAA General and Specific Duty requirements are concerned. These
particular institutions might have been good or exemplars at stating what
they intend to do in response to the statutory requirements of the Act, now
they have to start evidentially implementing their stated commitment through
their action plans, before they can be deemed to be delivering on their
employment and service delivery practices, according to the General Duty
expectations.
The reason for amending Section 71 of the RRA 1976, after the Stephen
Lawrence Inquiry by Macpherson, was to ensure that institutions delivered
their employment and service provision practice in a race equality proofed
manner, hence the General and Specific Duty requirements, to ensure the
deinstitutionalisation of any form of unlawful witting or unwitting racial
discriminatory practice.
Any issues arising from your referring to the exemplar policies and action
plans are to be raised with us at the ECU otherwise the subject institutions
could be inundated with queries that could unnecessarily increase their
already large workloads.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Mannie Kusemamuriwo
Policy Adviser: Ethnicity & Cultural Diversity <<02-03.pdf>>
Equality Challenge Unit
3rd Floor, 4 Tavistock Place
London WC1H 9RA
Tel 020 7520 7063
Fax 020 7520 7069
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