[from Inclusion Scotland]
The Westminster Government are currently consulting on a new Single Equality Bill drawing together all anti-discrimination legislation (race, gender & disability). Amongst the proposed changes in law is one to scrap public bodies’ Race, Gender and Disability Equality Duties (that duty was only introduced in 2006) and replace them with a Single Equality Duty.
All the main equalities organizations in Scotland oppose this proposal - as have nearly all of the Inclusion Scotland’s members who have responded to our own mini-consultation on the issue. As equalities legislation is reserved to Westminster it’s your MP (and not your MSP) that needs to be alerted to this proposed change and asked to oppose it.
Here is a pro forma letter which can be used to lobby your MP about retaining the Disability Equality Duty. If you don’t know who your MP is or where to write to them click on the link to ‘They Work For You’ and you can find out who they are and what their e-mail address is very easily through supplying your post code. Then you can send them the attached letter - which can be readily adapted to make your own points (Note: remember to add your name and address and signature to the letter).
As MPs are required to respond to correspondence please let us know how you get on once you have their reply.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Donna McSwiggan, Information Officer, Inclusion Scotland, 5a Sir James Clark Building, Abbey Mill Business Centre, Paisley PA1 1TJ Tel: 0141 887 7090 E-mail: information@inclusionscotland.org Visit our website at www.inclusionscotland.org
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