Home Office Race, Disability and Gender Equality Scheme

The Home Office Race, Disability and Gender Equality Scheme explains how we plan to meet our statutory duties to promote equality, bringing together the department’s race, disability and gender equality schemes.

Three pieces of legislation are central to our scheme. These are:

• Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 (RR(A)A)
• Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 2005
• Equality Act (EA) 2006.

These laws impose positive duties on all public bodies to promote race, disability and gender equality in everything that we do.

The scheme is made up of:

• an over-arching scheme that sets out the principles and practices that apply throughout the Home Office group
• separate individual schemes for each part of the Home Office group

Date: Thu May 03 10:00:00 BST 2007

• Overarching equality scheme for the Home Office group (PDF file - 383kb)

  Overarching equality scheme for the Home Office group

• Border and Immigration Agency equality scheme (PDF file - 367kb)

  BIA equality scheme

• Criminal Records Bureau equality scheme (PDF file - 439kb)

  CRB equality scheme

• HM Inspectorate of Prisons equality scheme (PDF file - 134kb)

  HM Inspectorate of Prisons equality scheme

• HM Inspectorate of Probation equality scheme (PDF file - 52kb)

  HM Inspectorate of Probation equality scheme

• HM Prison Service equality scheme (PDF file - 367kb)

  HM Prison Service equality scheme

• Identity and Passport Service equality scheme (PDF file - 279kb)

  IPS equality scheme

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