Legislation
The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places a number of legal requirements upon NHS organisations. Race for Health supports the implementation of these requirements by publishing advice on good practice.
The Act requires NHS organisations to:
- Produce and publish an effective and comprehensive Race Equality Scheme.
- Collect, analyse and publish workforce data and ethnicity relating to selection, access to training, career progression, grievances and disciplinaries.
- Undertake Race Equality Impact Assessments on its activities and to publish the results and related activities.
The Equality Bill received Royal Assent on the 8th of April and formally became The Equality Act 2010.
It is intended that the provisions in the Act will come into force as follows:
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October 2010: Main provisions.
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April 2011: The integrated public sector Equality Duty, the Socio-economic Duty and dual discrimination protection.
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2012: The ban on age discrimination in provision of goods, facilities, services and public functions.
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2013: Private and voluntary sector gender pay transparency regulations (if required) and political parties publishing diversity data.