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public sector equality duty
Coverage of public sector equality duty in the Nexus archive.
- Can common sense replace Equality Act protections, as Kemi Badenoch suggests?
The Tory leader argues that the public sector equality duty, introduced after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, encourages division and should be replaced with common sense, while legal experts warn that abolishing it would increase discrimination.
- Labour accuses Badenoch of wanting to ‘turn clock back’ with plan to scrap public sector equality duty – UK politics live
Labour accuses Kemi Badenoch of wanting to scrap the public sector equality duty, which requires public authorities to consider the impact of their decisions on protected characteristics. Badenoch argues the duty is subjective and leads to legal challenges, calling for its removal to address issues in equalities legislation.