#policy-implementation

#policy-implementation

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed its formal guidance to Bridget Phillipson, the minister for women and equalities as well as the education secretary, who must now decide whether to accept it. One EHRC source said that while the decision-making on the guidance was restricted to a small group of people around the group's outgoing chair, Kishwer Falkner, the expectation was that it would closely reflect interim advice released by the watchdog in April.

That so few of the 600 recommendations to tackle racism have been implemented is all the more disappointing given that ways forward are well understood.