Equality Data Programme News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In the ongoing battle for workplace equity, diversity and inclusion, we are all responsible for our own actions. Here, we discuss how we may all become ...

Ms Truss said the state's agenda has been too narrow and ignored other crucial ways in which the country is not fair. Setting out a new “Conservative values” approach in a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies think tank she dismissed quotas, targets, and unconscious bias training as “tools of the Left” that “do nothing to fix systems”. Instead the government will concentrate on promoting “freedom, choice, opportunity, individual humanity and dignity,” she said. "To make our society more equal, we need the equality debate to be led by facts, not by fashion,” Ms Truss said....

BBC News By Justin Parkinson image captionLiz Truss says "right-thinking people" must fight for "fairness" The government is promising to focus more on people's social class and individual "character", as it overhauls its equality policy. Equalities minister Liz Truss said the discrimination debate should not focus solely on race, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Discussion had too often been dominated by "fashion" and not "facts", she said. Labour accused Ms Truss of "gratuitous provocation" and ignoring the "devastating impact" of discrimination. The government is launching an E...

‘Fight For Fairness’ speech to set out government’s new approach to equality The Minister for Women and Equalities, Liz Truss, sets out the Government's new approach to tackling inequality across the UK. From: 17 December 2020 Liz Truss to set out government’s move to root out inequality that impacts people across the UK New evidence-based approach to tackle geographical inequality and break down barriers to social mobility – moving away from current way of thinking Equality Hub to relocate to the North and take on sponsorship of the Social Mobility Commission to give this agend...

BBC News By Justin Parkinson image captionLiz Truss says "right-thinking people" must fight for "fairness" The government is promising to focus more on people's social class and individual "character", as it overhauls its equality policy. Equalities minister Liz Truss said the discrimination debate should not focus solely on race, religion, sexual orientation and disability. Discussion had too often been dominated by "fashion" and not "facts", she said. Labour accused Ms Truss of "gratuitous provocation" and ignoring the "devastating impact" of discrimination. The government is launching an E...