Everyday Equality: challenging discrimination in welfare benefits
Event Information
Description
Do you want to improve the quality of discrimination advice in welfare benefits?
The Everyday Equality conference will launch our groundbreaking online handbook: Practical Equality Rights in Welfare Benefits Advice, a tool to help information and advice providers use equality and human rights to solve everyday discrimination problems in the welfare benefits system.
The conference will be chaired by Julie Bishop, Director of Law Centres Network, and speakers will include experts in discrimination advice and welfare benefits advice from Public Law Project, Legal Action Group, Rightsnet, Leigh Day and Mind. There will be a networking lunch and refreshments, and four practical and strategic workshops will show you:
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How to use the Equality Act to tackle sanctions
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The equality impacts of welfare reform
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How to get legal aid in welfare benefits and discrimination
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How to deliver discrimination advice effectively for welfare benefits problems
The conference is aimed at anyone who provides advice or information on welfare benefits and is interested in equality rights.
The conference is also an opportunity for researchers working on welfare reform and leading legal and grassroots practitioners to come together and discuss practical ways to challenge unfair treatment in the welfare benefits system, and the policy changes needed.
Our venue is fully accessible and has induction loops.
We hope you can make it. We believe that with your support our Everyday Equality project can help create a step-change in the practice of discrimination advice. Please help us challenge inequality that happens every day.
About the Everyday Equality project
The Everyday Equality project will improve the quality of discrimination advice in welfare benefits. We are creating a practical online handbook, designed by and for use by organisations working with community groups, information providers, generalist advisers and welfare benefits advisers.
Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) are running the project. The members of EDF include information and advice providers including Age UK, Mind, Citizens Advice, Law Centres Network, National Aids Trust, Stonewall and Race on the Agenda. This project builds on our previous capacity building projects on the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Our Editorial Board for this project includes Rightsnet, Legal Action Group, Public Law Project, Child Poverty Action Group, and the Law Centres Network.
We would like to thank the Equality and Human Rights Commission who funded this project through their grants programme.
Contact us at jo.chimes@edf.org.uk or jessica.redfern@edf.org.uk for more information.
