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Summary: Training and education resources to help teach equality and human rights.
What is Equal Rights, Equal Respect?
Equal Rights, Equal Respect is a set of free online teacher training and education resources to help teach Key Stage 3 students in England about equality and human rights in a way that is relevant to their lives.
Equal Rights, Equal Respect is structured into three main areas: a resource toolkit, training options and a useful information section.
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- Fawcett launches legal challenge to government budget
- EDF Update on the Implementation of the Equality Act
- Government targets child poverty with reform of the benefits system
- Lib Dems expected to back gay marriage
- Seeking Views on Equality Scheme
- Autism in adults diagnosed by quick, new brain scan
- Coping With Cuts: Practical Advice Guides
- Poll reveals widespread discrimination against people with learning disabilities
- Legal aid cuts put access to justice at risk, say lawyers
- Theresa May's letter to the chancellor
- Maria Miller Calls for More Accessible Politics
- Religious discrimination: What recent tribunal decisions mean for employers
- Fawcett Society launches legal challenge to government budget
- New Equality Duty May Require Publishing of Equality Data
- Schools admissions ''fail poorest children''
- The EU Journalist Award 2010 is now open
- Equal pay for women still 57 years away
- Girls continue to outperform boys in early education
- Ministers call on business to improve disabled access ahead of the 2012 Games
- Eric Pickles: Time for a fair deal for the travelling and settled community
- Mervyn Davies in new drive to boost women in the boardroom
- Office for Disability Issues: Equality Act guidance consultation
- Human Rights committee calls for submissions
- Black and mixed-race young people treated more harshly by youth justice system, research confirms
- Ethnic Minority customers of the Pension, Disability and Carers Service
- Deaf children face teaching inequality
- Special needs label overused, says Ofsted
- List of Equality Act provisions coming into force on October 1st
- Stonewall Urged to Speak Out for Marriage Equality
- British Chambers of Commerce and EHRC Publish Small Business Equal Pay Guide
- National BAME Youth Survey
- The 14th Ethnic Minority Business Conference
- EDF Views on the Future of Equality
- Time To Change Launch Mental Health Campaign
- Parliamentary Debate on the Equality Act
- Minimum Requirements for Children's Rights Commissioner Published
- Late Guidance on Equality Act 'Risks Confusion.'
- New Draft Compact Published Ahead of Six Week Consultation
- Minimum Wage Increases
- Implementation of the Equality Act 2010: EHRC Statement
- Cameron vows to support vulnerable families and invest in early years
- Mental health boost for Britain's troops
- LGA - Vital councils at heart of health service shake-up
- Incapacity Benefit Claims Come Under Spotlight
- More black people jailed in England and Wales proportionally than in US
- Inequality Still Rife in Schools, Says EHRC
- Right to Request Flexible Working will be Extended to Parents of Children under 18
- Thirteen Arrests in Leicester EDL and UAF Protests
- Stonewall opens research into experiences of older people
- BIHR Launch Human Rights Toolkit
- Communities Minister urges faith groups to inspire community action
- DfE figures show one in four primary school boys has SEN
- Spending Review 2010
- Poll on sexual harassment in schools
- Government strategy for the VCS and consultation
- Government Review of Public Bodies
- EHRC Equality Act Starter Kit
- Children with Special Educational Needs 2010: An Analysis
- Welfare reform - new employment programme for disabled people is launched
- Children from poorest households more likely to suffer from mental health problems, study shows
- Childcare provision for disabled children branded inadequate
- Community Budgets to help the vulnerable
- Charity Commission consults on its spending cuts
- Consultation on the 'Future of Citizenship Survey'
- GEO Update Gender Equality Factsheet
- Grandparents Plus: 'What if we said no?'
- Howard League for Penal Reform calls for action on imbalance of black and minority ethnic children in the secure estate
- Commission Launches Inquiry into Home Care of Older People
- Government Spending Review
- DWP Unveils Five-Year Business Plan
- BBC to ask viewers what they think of its diversity work
- Ethnicity should not be a barrier to adoption, says Junior Children's Minister
- DWP Launch 'Universal Credit: Welfare That Works'
- An Open Letter to the Voluntary Sector
- New Legislation Introduced to Enable Quango Reforms
- 700,000 children acting as carers, survey shows
- Increase to higher rate Disability Living Allowance
- Average coming out age has fallen by over 20 years
- Equality duty scrapped
- New guidance on producing information for people with learning disabilities
- One million women unemployed as government spending cuts start to bite
- 'Black Africans' in Britain: integration or segregation?
- Public enthusiastic to join the 'Big Society', but put off by time constraints and red tape
- 'Capping Immigration to the UK: Where Next?' IPPR Report
- When times are tough - Tackling household spending and debt through diaries - IPPR Report
- 400,000 could lose DLA, alliance claims
- Improving services for women and child victims of violence: the Department of Health Action Plan
- Department for Education publishes 'The Importance of Teaching' white paper
- EHRC to assess the Spending Review's compliance with equality law
- EHRC warns police forces of legal action over use of stop and search
- Cross-Government Equalities Strategy published
- Cross-Government plan on violence against women and girls
- 'A vision for adult social care' strategy launched
- Consultation on Legal Aid reform
- Coalition campaign: 'Justice for All'
- RADAR Chief Executive will review Employment Support for disabled people
- Forum identifies twelve key steps to tackling discrimination
- Welfare Reform: Disability Living Allowance for the 21st century
- Cuts will reduce women's income and widen pay gay, warns TUC
- Eric Pickles celebrates faiths working in harmony
- Business Minister lobbies Europe against 'costly and regressive' maternity proposals
- Deal will mean public runs Leicester community centre
- Baroness Newlove in 'Call to Action' for community safety
- Government abandons rape anonymity move
- Improvements to Ministry of Justice statistics - Consultation
- Free volunteer advertising with Guardian jobs
- Regional Focus: Public service relocation - The case for Northamptonshire
- End of child trust fund will harm vulnerable children's life chances, think tank cautions
- Disabled people get right to control services
- EDF Launch 3-year strategy
- Life Opportunities Survey of Disability
- Government plans in disarray as experts predict rise in child poverty
- Government to begin process to erase convictions for historic gay sex offences
- Child and Working-Age Poverty Set To Rise In Next Three Years
- One East Midlands publishes 'Our Big Society' papers
- 'Modernising Commissioning' Green Paper Published
- EHRC legal action against the BNP
- Cabinet Office provide Big Society overview
- Cuts spell hardship 'for a generation of young people'
- Court finds hotel owners discriminated against gay couple
- New online safety resources launched for young deaf people and those with special educational needs
- Government announces boost for dementia research
- Phasing out the default retirement age: Government reponse to consultation
- Citizenship survey: April - September 2010, England
- New public sector equality duty guidance
- Equality Act: Positive action in recruitment and promotion
- Nottingham MP calls for early years intervention
- BBC looking for young victims of disability hate crime
- East Midlands MEP defends Twitter gay comments
- Protest over Leicester City Council savings plan
- Pensions Bill will boost savings for millions
- Government consulting on Disability Living Allowance reform
- One East Midlands MP Guide 2011
- More disabled workers risk losing their jobs in public sector cuts, warns TUC
- Nottinghamshire council U-turn on voluntary funding
- Study looking to talk to transgender people
- Bus subsidies set to be scrapped in Northamptonshire
- Seven Lincolnshire schools consider 'super academy'
- UK Gay marriage challenge goes to European Court
- Localism Bill set to impact on NHS
- First Hindu school for Leicester is given the go-ahead
- Nearly £30 million to help most vulnerable victims of crime
- Museum closures justified because visitors are 'predominantly white' says Leicester City Council
- Police launch new hate crime website
- Admissions suspended to Leicestershire care home as CQC takes action to protect people
- Further protest over Leicester City Council cuts plan
- Charity Commission should charge registration or membership fees, says Institute of Fundraising
- Disabled people urge Leicester City Council to rethink its plan to shut down day centres
- Women's groups struggle amid funding cuts
- Disabled people fear cuts will make life 'not worth living'
- RADAR Stop Disability Hate Crime Project
- Voluntary Sector Cuts - Mapping Intelligence
- EHRC Statutory Codes of Practice
- Bishop opens Leicester's St Martin's House complex
- New charity 'How To' guides
- Extra 3 million pounds set to secure Leicestershire travel scheme
- Government blasted over childhood taskforce silence
- Leicester City Council makes U-turn on some of its planned cuts
- New plans to expand volunteering and training unveiled
- Equality laws aid economic recovery - Trevor Phillips
- Services are failing to support refugee children in accessing education, claims charity
- Gingerbread calls on government to drop child maintenance fees
- GEO launches new approach to engaging and listening to women
- Campaigners welcome gay marriage equality plans
- Cuts will clobber Equality and Human Rights Commission, claim staff
- One in five schoolchildren has been abused or neglected, says NSPCC survey
- Two Derby men deny inciting anti-gay hatred
- New push for LGBT equality will allow civil partnerships in religious buildings
- New funding will help disabled people become MPs
- Welfare Reform Bill introduced into Parliament
- Call for evidence on disabled people and independent living
- Spending cuts campaigns and resources
- 'Who is ready for the Big Society?' report
- New Disability Counsel website launched
- Equality Act 2010 dual discrimination provisions delayed
- Positive Action under the Equality Act 2010
- New Paternity Leave rules for dads
- Save the Children attacks child poverty figure
- Eastwood hate crime victims offered help
- Response to the Lord Davies report on women in the boardroom
- Fears youth unemployment will rise further as figures hit five-year high
- Six million pounds of community grants unveiled by the Department for Education
- EHRC supplementary research on specific LGBT issues
- Youngsters from ethnic minorities miss out on apprenticeships
- Families face a cost of living crisis, warns Miliband
- DfE cuts to research evaluations spark concern
- EHRC launch Draft Code of Practise for Schools consultation
- Response to definition of disability consultation published
- DPP says prosecuting disability hate crime is 'the next frontier' for the Criminal Justice System
- Mapping Voluntary Sector Cuts
- Age discrimination to be outlawed under new government plans
- Government accused of politically-motivated cuts to children's services
- Nottinghamshire voluntary group funding is slashed
- Stonewall is conducting the largest ever survey of gay and bisexual men’s health
- Budget implications for equality
- Consultation on reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Commission on a UK Bill of Rights: announcement and responses
- Government LGB and T action plan
- Hutton Review of Fair Pay: Final report
- Committee report and response on ‘Shrinking the Quango State’
- Future of the Citizenship Survey: Summary of responses
- Handbook on European non-discrimination law
- Cuts and the voluntary sector: Secretary of State’s speech and VCS letter to councils
- Stonewall survey of gay and bisexual men’s health
- Rainbow Project report on workplace equality
- Leicestershire Constabulary and Adult Safeguarding
- Coalition scrambles to salvage NHS reforms as Miliband goes on offensive
- Human Rights for Disabled People - are you aware of "the Convention"?
- The new single Equality Duty – what is it all about?
- Report on Migrant Communities and the Big Society
- Eric Pickles predicts public service shake up - as Community Budget begins
- Government approves new £6.08 minimum wage rate
- Results of 2010 National Census
- Derbyshire Friend - Job Opportunities
- Youth Services - new self-help pack points councils and professionals to better value
- RNIB Partners with Fix the Web to Tackle the Issue of Inaccessible Websites
- Prime Minister and Health Secretary listen on NHS accountability
- Councillor's Guide 2011/12
- June 30th 2011 - A date for your diaries
- ‘Worrying times ahead’ for homeless in England
- Equality Act 2010: Public Sector Equality Duty
- Building a social recovery
- UN convention report - Multidisciplinary perspectives
- Higher rate mobility component for people with severe sight impairments
- Tracking the lives of disabled families through the cuts
- Striking equality staff challenge employer's misleading claims
- OCS announcement of strategic patterns and responses
- HPA - Dengue fever causes double among UK travellers
- Charter to end homophobia and transphobia in sport
- Radar's MP Disability Dialogue
- Don't be fooled by today's child poverty figures
- Government 'Access to Work' statistics
- Department for Education report on anti-bullying stategies in schools
- Report of review of government policy on Gypsies and Travellers
- Survey on impact of cuts on refugees and migrants
- The latest households below average income figures were published today
- Government announces £3m extra for disabled people's organisations
- Radical reforms for parental leave and flexible working proposal
- Business plan 2011-15
- New public sector equality duty in action
- Transgender online survey recieved overwhelming response
- Publication of DWP Research Report 735 Predictors of attitudes to age across Europe
- Public consultation: The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2011
- Equlity and Human Rights Commission: Business plan 2011-12
- Predictors of attitudes to age across Europe
- Have your say on the government's draft UN report
- Broke, not broken report - Princess Trust
- Research confirms link between poverty and ethnicity in the UK
- ICCP publishes Fiona Pilkington investigation report
- Cameron 'big society' speech in full
- Red tape challenge
- Commission appoints Chief Executive
- Human rights in social housing guidance published by Commission
- Commission comment on the retrial of Lawrence suspects
- Equality Act Guidance
- Cuts are likely to hit charities harder than expected
- PCS and Unite take first action on equalities body
- UK demonstrates progress on eliminating discrimination against women
- Commission welcomes ruling on London Borough of Hillingdon v Steven and Mark Neary
- Women face 150-year wait for equality in local government
- A review to the Government by Liz Sayce
- Reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: a consultation
- A plain English guide to the Localism Bill - Update
- Minister calls on councils to get ready for proposed new powers to help homeless families
- Inquiry reveals failure to protect the rights of older people receiving care at home
- EHRC religion and belief report
- Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Committee's report: Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies
- EHRC research report: The impact of counter-terrorism measures on muslim communities
- Consulation on EHRC strategic plan 2009-12
- Stop and Think - EHRC report
- Risk information published for small charities
- Equality Seminars
- CAB - Inconsistent treatment preventing disabled people address their debts says Citizens Advice
- Cuts making it harder for homeless people to get help
- Draft Specific Duties regulations
- Government response to the consultation on legal aid reform
- Consultation on EHRC strategic plan 2009-2010
- Hate crime research report
- Fairer care funding report
- UN resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Equality matters for children
- Fawcett research on single mothers and welfare changes
- Older people and Human rights
- Your human rights
- What am I afriad of?
- Refugees, migrants and the equality agenda
- Parliamentary committeee sessions on UK Bill of rights commission
- EHRC research report - All things being equal?
- Differing lifestyles: a study of ethnicity and health
- New health authorities need to advance equality
- Branch manager awarded £400,000 in disability discrimination case
- Draft Specific Duties update
- EHRC intervention in cases of religious discrimination
- Supporting youth employment
- EHRC research and policy paper on the health sector and equality duties
- Appointments to public bodies: your views needed
- GEO - Annual report and accounts 2010-11
- Moving towards effective equality outcomes
- How fair is Britain?
- Commission launches human rights resource for public sector
- Commission on a bill of rights discussion paper
- Shadow report to the committee for the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
- The low review and call for evidence on personal mobility in residential care
- Consultations and responses on community rights to challenge and buy
- EHRC practical guidance on human rights
- Strengthening disabled people's useer-led organisations programme
- European commission anti-discrimination activities
- European commission synthesis report on LGBT
- Runnymede report: Fair's Fair - Equality and justice in the big society
- Increasing women's representation on boards: The 30% Club
- New Age UK guide - Equality and Human Rights in practice
- One Eastmidlands - New board members required
- First £30 million transferred from dormant bank accounts
- Over 2,000 charities hit by local council spending
- OCS spending to reduce by 61 percent over three years
- Sex and Power: 5,400 women missing from top jobs
- The Government is cutting funding for over disabled and over 60s coach discount
- Gender pay gap narrowing
- Summary of survey results by Papworth trust
- A fair deal for the voluntary and community sector - from Whitehall to town halls
- EHRC sex and power reports
- Does Equality Act change landlords' obligations to disabled tenants?
- Hidden in plain sight report - the inquiry final report
- Racist incidents - latest statistics
- Leading UK businesses to report equality data
- Tackling the obstacles faced by disabled people
- Older persons' month launch
- It's time to act on mental health work
- Select Committee report on localism and Government response
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender equality
- EHRC - equal rights, equal respect
- Combating anti-gypsyism and discrimination against Roma
- Citizenship survey: April 2010 - March 2011 Statistics
- Research report by the DWP
- Review of Joseph Rowntree Foundation research
- Enabling equality: futhering disability equality for staff in HE
- Commission submits European court of Human Rights intervention on religious discrimination in the workplace
- Home Secretary Theresa May wants Human Rights Act axed
- 4 in every 10 disabled children living in poverty
- Consultation on EHRC strategic plan 2012-2015
- Lets fight racism
- Employment law review - update and consulatation
- Integrated household survey April 2010-March 2011
- Lesbian Health: Myths and Realities
- Launch of observatory of inequality in Europe
- EDF call for public sector equality duty case studies
- Take the "I Exist" survey
- GEO - Addressing Gender Eqaulity
- Governemnt consulatation on the big lottery fund
- One East Midlands AGM
- Far right studies
- Take action to defend women's rights
- Voluntary Action Melton is now recruiting
- One East Midlands CEO to head-up to economic investment body
- Nick Hurd writes open letter to the voluntary sector
- Gareth Thomas named new shadow civil society minister
- TSRC launches gateway to voluntary sector research
- Department of Health: Hard enough task even in good times
- Census: consultation on the 'Beyond 2011 Programme'
- Government announcement: delay in the increase in the state pension age
- Government update and progress report on 'women on boards'
- Commission on a Bill of Rights: EDF template response
- TUC Equality Duty Toolkit
- Big society and inequality
- European Trans Equality Toolkit
- Lottery £50m to shelter vcs from funding cuts
- 2010/11 National Survey of Investment in Adult Mental Health Services
- More news is bad news, says report
- Commission publishes research on targeted crime
- EHRC Codes and guidance feedback survey
- Equal rights, equal respect
- New investment guidance for charities
- Public has BIG ideas to move millennium forward
- Government guide to the Equality Act 2010 specific duties
- Call to participate in universal periodic review
- EHRC call for human rights case studies
- EDF invitation to test new vcs public sector equality duty materials
- Stonewall tools for lesbian, gay and bisexual jobseekers
- NCVO best practice guidance for local authorities and the vcs
- Charities 'ignored' in riot debate - NCVO
- Women facing 'retirement poverty'
- Women at the heart of plans for economic growth
- Strengthening women's voices in Government
- Blood donation ban for gay men lifted
- Words can hurt
- Youth unemployment increases in 97 percent of the UK in the last year
- Equality Act 2010 Quick start up guide
- Body confidence campaign
- Civil partnership in religious premises consultation response
- Personal health budgets DVD
- Sustaining and transforming the future of funding advice
- Review of charities Act 2006
- Support service reaches out to deaf and hard of hearing people
- Government support for women in business
- EHRC research on targeted harassment and violence
- EHRC briefing on equality groups' perceptions and experiences of crime
- Scope report on impact of legal aids cuts on disabled people
- TUC 'Women and the Cuts toolkit'
- Fawcett report: 'A life raft for women's equality'
- Human dignity trust: legally challenging the illegality of homosexuality
- Rethinking disability policy
- NFWI report: Legal aid is a lifeline
- EHRC submission to the Bill of Rights Commission
- First football club signs the Sports Charter
- Civil justice council report on access to justice
- School and youth workers struggle to tackle homophobic bullying
- Easy read guide to the Localism Act
- Latest Gypsy & Traveller Caravan Count Statistics
- World AIDS Day - 1 December
- Care home residents to keep DLA/PIP mobility
- Fulfilling potential: disabled people asked to Shape Government Policy
- Disabled children do matter
- Social Inclusion for migrants and ethnic minorities
- Monitoring poverty and social inclusion
- Hate crime laws extended
- Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action
- Contact a Family survey reveals plight of families with disabled children
- Human Rights in your community
- Speech by Human Rights commissioner at EDF event
- New arrangements for information, advice and support on discrimination and human rights
- European Commission seeks public input on measures to break down barriers to disabled people
- Commons committee publishes report on Big Society
- OECD report on income inequality
- British Social Attitudes: the 28th report
- Labour's Consultation on women's personal safety and security
- Human Rights and the Eqaulity Act 2010 - Seminars
- New site funding offers fairer deal for travellers and the settled community
- Human rights committe report on legal aid bill
- EHRC chair's evidence to parliamentary committee on human rights in the UK
- EHRC updated guidance on the equality duty
- 2009-10 citizenship survey: Race, Religion and Equalities topic report
- EHRC research update December 2011
- Law changes to enable VCS to join credit unions
- Results of 16th quarterly charity Forecast Survey published
- Charities Act 2011 recieves Royal Assent
- Office for civil society launches VCS web survey
- Bob Neill gives more councils the go-ahead to tackle historic pay inequalities
- DWP In-house research report 'Attitudes to age in Britain 2010-11'
- Stop-and-search 'highly intrusive'
- First BIG grants to help VCS groups plan for more sustianable future
- Commission funds first age discrimination cases heard at the supreme court
- Prime Minister's speech on the European court of Human Rights
- Evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on violence against women
- Thirty NGOs call for protection for legal aid
- Equality and Human Rights News - January 2012
- February - LGBT History Month
- Enduring myths about rape victims lead to acquittals, says chief prosecutor
- New interpreter services to provide more efficient and effective justice
- Lawyer wins gay discrimination claim against law firm
- People often not at the centre of their own care, says CQC as it publishes reports from its review of services for people with learning disabilities
- One East Midlands February Newsletter
- Civil partners win against gay discrimination appeal
- Report shows unaccompanied children, including trafficking victims, sent back to France: our response
- Coffee morning with Action Deafness
- Tackle mental health problems among those with long term conditions, says thinktank
- Court ruling means disabled air passengers are not protected, says commission
- Stronger CPS cases in hate crime lead to increase in guilty pleas
- Choice Unlimited
- Vacancy: EDF Human Rights Program Director
- Creating the conditions for integration
- Age discrimination in the provision of services and public functions
- Lottery £50m to put people power into practice in England Communities
- Too many young people "suffering in silence" with mental health problems
- Commission publishes Human Rights review
- FRA factsheet on inequalities and multiple discrimination in health care
- CLG strategy: 'Creating the conditions for integration'
- Marmot Review: Two years on data
- Three steps to escaping domestic violence
- Letter to the Independent by Human Rights Commissioner on Gypsies and Travellers in the UK
- Human Rights protect everyone in Britain and affect every aspect of our lives
- REDP Hate Crime Seminars
- End of life care services letting down lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, say leading charities
- Challenge it, Report it, stop it
- Premier League signs the sports charter
- Update on statutory codes of practice on the public sector equality duty
- Government consultation on equal civil marriage
- Delay in implementing ban on age discrimination
- Report of Labour's Commission on Women's safety
- Budget not 'George's Marvellous Medicine' for the voluntary sector
- Consultation and responses on equal civil marriage consultation
- Progress report by the ministerial working group on tackling inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers
- Access to elected office for disabled people strategy complience with the equality Act 2010:guidance for political parties
- Equality and Human Rights Commission research update March 2012
- FRA survey of Jewish people's experiences and perceptions of antisemitism
- Coverage of event was disappointing
- Websites suffer in comparison with decent access standards
- Legal Aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders Act:
- Commission publishes research on European Court of Human Rights judgements relating to UK government
- Parliamentary debate on the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Make your experience count
- OCC report on 'Children and Equality'
- Gay and bisexual men 'neglected' by health services
- British Humanist Association report on 'prganisation of "faith" schools in the maintained sector
- Joint NGO statement
- Over-looked communities, over due change
- Black minority groups more likely to receive extra days in custody