Socio-economic duty implementation
Failure to enact Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 (socio-economic duty) in England, impacting vulnerable populations.
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#8 - Commission EHRC to review effectiveness of age discrimination protections in Equality Act.
We recommend the Government commission and fund the Equality and Human Rights Commission to review the effectiveness of protections against age discrimination provided by the Equality Act and Public Sector Equality Duty in England, including but not limited to consideration of: • the implications for older people’s rights, and the enforceability of those rights, of allowing objective justification...
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Committee recommendation
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#16 - Eighth Report: Economic impact of coronavirus: the challenges of recovery
In order to prevent “levelling up” becoming an empty slogan, the Government should produce a strategy underpinning it that defines clear objectives and includes the indicators it will use to gauge success at the next fiscal event. The Government needs to clarify whether it is planning to close the productivity gap, the income gap, the gap in health...
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#12 - 4th Report - Housing Conditions in the Private Rented Sector
The abolition of Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 will go long way to give tenants greater confidence to complain about poor housing conditions without the worry that their landlord will evict them. However, tenants are still vulnerable to the risk of a retaliatory rent increase that they cannot afford. With many renters already struggling to afford...
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#7 - Age discrimination law is ineffective, poorly enforced, and fails to protect older people.
There is a wealth of evidence that age discrimination is highly prevalent in the UK and widely perceived as less serious and harmful than other forms of discrimination. Age discrimination law, in particular the allowance of objective justification of direct age discrimination, contributes to this perception. The law as it stands deters discrimination claims on the ground of...
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HSSIB recommendation
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Intrapartum stillbirth: learning from maternity safety investigations that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic 1 April to 30 June...
It may be beneficial if further work is done to understand the specific aspects of the healthcare system which could explain the disparity in the experience and risk for women and pregnant people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and those with higher socio-economic deprivation.
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Committee recommendation
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#9 - 1st Report – Health Bill 2026–27
We recommend that the Secretary of State’s duties in relation to health inequalities in clause 4 of the bill be strengthened and that all ministers should be under a duty to consider how policies they enact might contribute to or reduce health inequalities. (Recommendation, Paragraph 33) 23
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#10 - Examine government and UKRI efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Should our successor Committee wish to consider levels of diversity and inclusion in STEM, we recommend it considers: • Examining whether the trends in STEM education, particularly in subject uptake and attainment, as well as the delivery of STEM curriculum content, have changed since the Committee’s inquiry, and the potential reasons for this; • The role that neurodiverse...
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#8 - Revisit equality law enforcement regime, clarifying Fair Work Agency and EHRC roles to protect workers.
To ensure long-term enforcement of the new duties on employers introduced in the Employment Rights Bill, the Government should revisit the regime for enforcing equality law and harm against individual protected characteristics, including setting out how the Fair Work Agency will work with the EHRC where their responsibilities overlap. As part of its implementation of employment rights reform,...
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Committee recommendation
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#10 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Out of area placements can remove vulnerable people from their support networks at a time when they most need them and have a devastating impact on people’s healthcare and education. Reports of the disproportionate use of these placements for Black households is concerning. Failures of local authorities to fulfil their section 208 duties in notifying the new host...
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#9 - Task Acas with leading an information campaign to promote good employment practice compliance.
We recognise that there are a significant number of new employment rights that employers will need to understand and implement. We therefore call on the Government to consider how they use networks of employment support, both statutory and voluntary, to support employers in the implementation. We recommend that the Government task Acas with leading an information campaign to...
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Committee recommendation
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#13 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
In bringing forward the “duty to collaborate” the government should set out a clear ambition to tackle the poorer outcomes including increased risks of homelessness that minority ethnic groups experience in leaving the care of public services. The government should ensure that such a proposal is developed with input from Black communities, Black-led organisations, and Black individuals with...
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Committee recommendation
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#12 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Statutory services should be required to play a stronger role in tackling homelessness. We welcome the focus in the National Plan to End Homelessness on switching from crisis response to prevention of homelessness and the proposed “duty to collaborate” to help achieve that ambition. The lack of an explicit link between the proposed “duty to collaborate” and tackling...
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Committee recommendation
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#2 - 1st Report – Employment support for disabled people: Connect to Work
We welcome Connect to Work’s solid foundations in internationally recognised supported employment models grounded in person-centred, values-based approaches, that are widely regarded as an effective framework for supporting disabled people into sustainable employment. The programme’s scale, national coordination, and delivery at a local level puts it in a good position to provide more targeted support to those most...
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Committee recommendation
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#4 - 3rd Report – Competition and market functioning in the UK live music industry
The Committee concludes that a market investigation into the live music industry should be a priority of the CMA. Against a backdrop of the cost of living crisis, an investigation and consequential remedial measures have strong potential to improve market functioning and help deliver economic growth in the UK. (Conclusion, Paragraph 30)
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#10 - Develop a clear, long-term industrial relations strategy, credibly resourced and embedded through collaboration.
The Government’s framework for industrial relations provides strong principles that can help to shape a future settlement based on productive engagement between trade unions and employers. To develop this ambition, we recommend that the Government develops a clear and long- term industrial relations strategy to ensure that implementation of those principles is credibly resourced and embedded through enforcement,...
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#28 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
While no one should be criminalised for sleeping rough, it is clear that the use of powers under the Vagrancy Act have been disproportionately used against the Black homeless population. We welcome the government’s repeal of the Act and the resulting positive impact this will have for the Black homeless population. (Recommendation, Paragraph 126) 53
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#20 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
The intersections of race with other characteristics, like age, gender, parenthood, sexuality, and disability, shapes both the likelihood of homelessness and the type of homelessness experienced by Black people and others. Recognition of overlapping issues is essential for understanding how and why homelessness occurs and for designing effective intervention strategies that would benefit Black people and other groups,...
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#18 - 4th Report - Housing Conditions in the Private Rented Sector
The government is taking positive steps through the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 to empower tenants. While we support the Renters’ Rights Act 2025, we are concerned too much onus remains on individuals to take action against their landlord, either through to courts or soon by approaching the ombudsman for redress. This approach risks neglecting the most vulnerable tenants,...
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#4 - 2nd Report – Affordability of Home Ownership
Support from family, often called the bank of mum and dad, is a major part of the current housing market for first-time buyers. This entrenches inequality in the sector, with home ownership resembling an inherited characteristic: a young person’s chance of homeownership depends more 53 on parental home ownership than on personal earnings. More should be done to...
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#12 - Amend Trade Union Act sections to improve recognition ballot complaint and limitation periods.
Given that an expected consequence of the Employment Right Bill may be greater recognition ballot activity within workplaces, it is essential that ministers amend section 27B of Schedule 1A of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to provide longer than 24 hours for complaints about the conduct of recognition ballots to be heard and addressed....
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#30 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
The new school breakfast clubs provide a key opportunity to introduce disadvantaged pupils to reading and books in a fun environment away from the pressures and stresses of learning. The Department must ensure that schools delivering the new breakfast clubs are encouraged to include books and reading activities as part of them and provide them with the guidance...
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#18 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
Parents and carers know the benefits of reading with their children and want to do more but face multiple barriers in doing so. Pressures and stresses exist for families across the income distribution; however, these are particularly acute for parents living in poverty. Lack of confidence in their own abilities alongside a gap in understanding of how best...
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#14 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
The Department must act decisively and evaluate the benefits of the different programmes being undertaken, with a particular focus on supporting children from those groups least likely to read for pleasure. This should include looking at the benefits of book gifting schemes; reading volunteers in schools; and programmes supporting parents with shared reading in the early years. This...
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#25 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
As part of its National Plan the government should engage with smaller, Black-led organisations who have the trust of their communities. This will enable the government to understand the issues Black people face across a range of ethnicities and other characteristics, and then work with these groups to design tailored interventions. It should use its convening powers to...
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#24 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
The delivery of the government’s National Plan to End Homelessness, including resultant policies and local strategies, should explicitly acknowledge and seek to tackle the excess risks of homelessness faced by Black people, and the disproportionately worse outcomes they experience within the homelessness system. The plan should seek to embed understanding, transparency and accountability in relation to the impact...
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#23 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
The government’s National Plan to End Homelessness and increased investment in social housing are very welcome. However, it is disappointing that there is little recognition in the Plan of the disproportionate impact of homelessness on Black people or any targeted commitments to address it. Policies and programmes that do not consider racial inequalities will continue to leave Black...
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#22 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Black people face a greater risk of homelessness compared to other ethnic groups. This disparity is not explained by poverty or geography alone. Instead, it reflects a combination of factors: direct and indirect racism in housing and related services, structural inequalities like lower home-ownership rates and poorer employment outcomes, and the legacy and contemporary effects of housing and...
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#11 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
We welcome the government’s plans to address poor practice in the use of out of area placements. Those plans should include measures to address the disproportionate use of these placements for Black households, including through the recording and publication of data by ethnicity and gender. (Recommendation, Paragraph 64)
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#1 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Evidence of prejudice against Black tenants in the private rented sector makes it crucial that support and pathways to challenge illegal behaviour are available and accessible. We welcome the increased rights for tenants delivered by the Renters’ Rights Act, which will help people to remain in their home, including Black households who are more likely to be threatened...
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#25 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
Most current student loan holders will never pay off their loan, which will function like a 30- or 40-year supplementary income tax. Many people told us that the debt acts as a psychological burden, unlike future income and national insurance taxation. (Conclusion, Paragraph 95) 43
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#6 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
Intergenerational fairness is fundamental to maintaining a functional society. A responsible government would pay close attention to it. Ministers must decide where to spend and cut based, at least partially, on which portions of the population need help or can afford to carry more of the burden. The student loan system is layering stress on to people in...
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#2 - 5th Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Crime and Policing Bill
The broad definition of anti-social behaviour encompasses a wide range of unacceptable behaviour. While it may be well-established and understood by some authorities, its breadth and subjectivity allows for inconsistency in its application and risks sweeping up less serious matters along with behaviour that demands a legal response. This can disproportionately affect vulnerable groups and result in measures...
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#3 - Third Report - Impact of COVID-19 on DCMS sectors: First Report
The cessation of community sport countrywide during lockdown has hit under- represented groups the hardest. While we welcome the announcement that some recreational sports teams can now resume play, we are concerned about gyms and leisure centres. These facilities act as community hubs, often providing subsidised facilities to those who most need them, but have been the last...
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#30 - Amend Employment Rights Bill Clause 26 to define reproductive health support as advancing gender equality.
Clause 26 of the Employment Rights Bill should be amended to make clear that supporting women with reproductive health conditions falls under the definition of advancing gender equality. (Paragraph 111) 77 Violence against women and girls
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#13 - Require transparency for recognition ballot spending and secure a long-term WERS replacement.
It is important that the impact of reform to industrial relations is both measurable and measured. We recommend that the Government bring transparency around industrial disputes in line with best practice elsewhere, including the United States, and requires parties involved in a recognition ballot to disclose spend on materials, consultants and other payments. In addition, we recommend the...
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#7 - Publish plans to regulate the umbrella company market and tackle non-compliance.
While compliant umbrella companies can have many benefits to workers, there have been longstanding concerns across governments that the lack of regulation in the umbrella company market can lead to exploitative working practices. The evidence is overwhelming of the need for the Government to properly regulate umbrella companies. The Committee therefore asks the Government, in response to this...
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#6 - Prioritise review of worker status and address false self-employment immediately.
While the Committee welcomes the Government’s plans to reform worker status and bogus self-employment, it must proceed at pace to turn ambition into action. If it does not, it risks more companies adopting a ‘self-employment’ model for their workforces to side-step the measures in the Employment Rights Bill. In the words of the Director of Labour Market Enforcement,...
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Investigation report: Clinical investigation booking systems failures - written communications in community languages
It may be beneficial to clarify the roles and functions of national organisations in supporting the health inequalities landscape.
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#39 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
Access to books is not a luxury but a fundamental driver of educational success. For many children, schools are the first and only place they encounter a wide range of books and stories. School libraries are not optional enhancements but essential infrastructure—powerful equalisers that ensure every child, regardless of background, can engage with reading and realise their potential....
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#26 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
Schools play a key role in developing a love of reading among children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds who otherwise lack opportunities to access books. The Department acknowledges this, but its policies do not reflect this, with work on reading focusing overwhelmingly on proficiency over pleasure. (Conclusion, Paragraph 116)
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#7 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
The Government must commit to a National Reading Guarantee ensuring that every child, regardless of background, has frequent, regular opportunities to enjoy books, stories and shared reading experiences from birth to 18 as part of everyday life. The National Reading Guarantee should encompass early years support and childcare, school and public libraries; and it should have a particular...
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#27 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
We welcome the government’s commitment to halve rough sleeping and the additional funding to support that objective. We urge the government to allocate some of that funding to frontline organisations working with Black rough sleepers given the particular challenges those individuals face around personal safety and access to support. (Recommendation, Paragraph 125)
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Committee recommendation
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#18 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Government strategies to end rough sleeping must take into account that women are more likely to manage their homelessness by making themselves less visible. Using this as a coping strategy can expose them to further risks. More hidden forms of homelessness, including less visible rough sleeping, merit attention and resources equal to that given to more visible forms...
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#11 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
With its Plan 5 reforms, the previous government chose to replace income- contingent interest rates with rates pegged to inflation, which suggested that it considered income-contingent loans as problematic. Instead, it opted to shift the burden of paying for higher education slightly away from the highest earners towards all loan holders through longer repayment terms and lower repayment...
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#9 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
Progressive interest rates that are set higher than the rate of inflation increase the costs of higher education to high earners, but this may not seem fair to high earners who also pay higher amounts of income tax than graduates on lower incomes. (Conclusion, Paragraph 43) 40
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#8 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
Considered in isolation, an interest rate much higher than inflation seems unfair, while an interest rate pegged to inflation that maintains the real- terms cost of a loan might seem fairer. If earnings fail to keep up with inflation, however, graduates become less well-off relative to their loan balance, as happened during the spike in inflation in 2022...
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#3 - 1st Report – Student loans: Broken and unfair?
In the long term, the government should return the balance between the individual and the state to a 50:50 split. (Recommendation, Paragraph 19)
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#21 - Ensure Fair Work Agency has powers and resources to investigate labour exploitation
The Government must ensure that the Fair Work Agency has the necessary powers to deter non-compliance. It must have the authority to investigate all forms of labour exploitation, up to and including modern slavery, and be adequately resourced to fulfil this remit. The Agency must build effective partnerships with the Police and the Home Office to tackle the...
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#20 - Creation of Fair Work Agency must not dilute existing enforcement powers
It is crucial that the creation of the Fair Work Agency does not result in a dilution of the powers currently held by the three existing enforcement bodies. (Conclusion, Paragraph 98)
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#19 - Set out Fair Work Agency funding target to meet ILO inspector benchmark
The Committee welcomes the Government’s focus on labour market enforcement to tackle non-compliance. However, if the Fair Work Agency (FWA) is to be given new powers it will also need more resource. Efficiencies made from combining current budgets will not be enough. The Government must set out to the Committee its target for funding the FWA so that...
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