PoliceProfessional.com – By NPIA Legal Evaluation Department
This article is the second part in a series providing a more detailed analysis of the provisions in the new Equality Bill. The last article, in the June 2009 edition of the NPIA Digest, covered Part 1 (socio-economic equalities) which places a duty on certain public authorities to consider the desirability of reducing socio-economic disadvantages in exercising their functions. It also covered Chapter 1 of Part 2 (Equality – key concepts), which set out the protected characteristics under the Bill…