New EMREC Annual Report

The East Midlands Racial Equality Consortium have issued their annual report for 2007 to 2008.

EHRC Launch Enquiry

The Equality and Human Rights Commission have launched an inquiry on how human rights work in Britain, which represents the starting point for their remit on human rights. Their goals for this work are to:

• promote understanding of the importance of human rights
• encourage good practice in relation to human rights
• promote awareness, understanding and protection of human rights
• encourage public authorities to comply with the Human Rights Act (section 9 of the Equality Act)

Hopefully by the end of the inquiry they will have a reliable set of findings about the state of human rights in Britain, and recommendations to move the human rights agenda forward. More details can be found from their site by clicking here.

Pilkington Report

The report The Educational Achievement of Ethnic Groups in Northamptonshire by Professor Andrew Pilkington is now available. Please click here to go to our news section, where the report and our response are available, and click here for a story from the Northampton Chronicle.

New DLA Web Site

The Discrimination Law Association has a new web site. You can now find them at www.discriminationlaw.org.uk.

Community Cohesion Strategy

The Community Cohesion Strategy Delivery Plan will bring about the commitment and involvement of all our key partners in the public, voluntary, community and commercial sectors through the county s Local Area Agreement. Active engagement by all agencies and the wider community is both welcomed and necessary. Please click here for a PDF. Also available are the following: Cohesion Delivery Plan, and Cohesion Strategy.