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WNC is a member of the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF)
This is a network of national organisations committed to progress on age, disability, gender and gender identity, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and broader equality and human rights issues.
The Forum was established in January 2002 to promote dialogue and understanding across the separate equality ‘strands’, and to ensure that policy debate on proposals for discrimination legislation and a single equality body recognises the cross-cutting nature of equality issues.
The Forum has:
- Members - those committed to its statement of principles and who sign up to agreed Forum policy positions.
- Observers - those who attend the meetings and engage on equal terms with the members, but are not able to sign up to an agreed position (for example government departments, the CBI etc).
- Correspondents - those who receive the papers of the Forum as a valuable way of following national policy developments on equality and diversity issues.
'Equality law fit for the 21st Century?' by Gay Moon, EDF Special Legal Advisor, identifies the measures that need to be included in the new Equality Act to ensure protection against discrimination for all.
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All public bodies are required to comply with the disability, gender and race equality duties. We have decided to publish a scheme that demonstrates how we do this but also which goes further and extends to other areas: age; religion and belief; sexual orientation; gender identity and socio-economic status, as well as other communities of disadvantage such as migrants, travellers and caregivers. This scheme contains commitment to actions in all of these areas. It is designed to be consistent with our mission: to promote equality for women through dialogue and demonstrate our commitment to mainstreaming equality into everything we do. To access the WNC Single Equality Scheme please click here. |
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