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Equality Bill: assessing the impact of a multiple discrimination provision
— consultation response | | Author(s) | Robert Brown |
| Corporate Author | Age Concern and Help the Aged |
| Publisher | Age Concern and Help the Aged, London, June 2009 |
| Pages | 6 pp (Consultation response, Ref: 3409) |
| Source | Age Concern England, Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER. www.ageconcern.org.uk Help the Aged, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. www.helptheaged.org.uk Email: robert.brown@helptheaged.org.uk |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Rights [elderly] ; Age Concern ; Help the Aged ; Comments or Evidence submitted. |
| Annotation | Age Concern and Help the Aged welcome proposals to include protection from discrimination on multiple grounds in the Equality Bill. This consultation response to the Government Equalities Office updates evidence provided by the Age Reference Group on Equality and Human Rights in 2005 in 'Age and ... multiple discrimination and older people: a discussion paper'. It identifies examples of multiple disadvantage and discrimination as the affect older women; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender older people; older people with disabilities; and black and minority ethnic (BME) older people. It also answers some of the specific questions posed in the GEO's document. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090903005 P |
| Classmark | B:TOB: IKR: PT: PYH: 6PM * |
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