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© United Kingdom Council for
Access and Equality 2006
What We Do
The six strands of equality legislation relating to Race, Gender, Disability, Religion and Belief, Sexual Orientation and Age require employers, service providers and others to take reasonable steps to prevent discrimination against people on prohibited grounds and provides for legal redress. The Disability, Gender and Race Equality Duties impose further obligations on Public Bodies to actively promote equality of opportunity, participation, and positive attitudes advocating more favourable treatment if deemed necessary.
Current equality legislation has been strand specific, disjointed and cumbersome for business. The forthcoming Single Equality Bill and EHRC, Equality and Human Rights Commission, will create a simpler, unified structure. It is this clarity and simplicity that the United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE) embraces: by creating one framework for business that will encompass all areas of equality legislation leading to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
UKCAE is a cross-community body that will formulate through consultation a Pathway that will provide awareness, understanding, knowledge and the necessary skills to enable an organisation to understand the requirements of equality legislation and assist them in adopting procedures and implementing systems that will promote diversity and inclusion.
