Equality Act 2010 amendment: re dedicated education and anti-ASB provisions

The proposed Amendment to the Equality Act 2010 focuses on specific DfE/education and anti-ASB & anti-discrimination/prejudice focused solutions, regarding improvement of UK Government departments and national agencies operational implementation level delivery of the provisions of the Equality Act.

We understand that you are concerned about the extent to which the Equality Act protects BAME groups, but it’s not clear exactly what change you want the Government to make. We can only accept petitions which make a clear request for a specific action from the Government.

We have recently published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Create an independent investigatory commission to help protect ethnic minorities: Create an independent investigatory commission to help protect ethnic minorities

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