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		<title>Acevo chair: equality debate &#8216;must move on from bra-burning&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If women in the voluntary sector are to achieve equality of pay and opportunity, the debate needs to move on from the “old-fashioned bra-burning era” and focus on skills, according to Acevo chair Lesley-Anne Alexander.
Alexander (pictured) made the comment during a panel discussion hosted by Bates Wells and Braithwaite yesterday to launch Rowena Lewis’s report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact group: charities could allocate percentage of funding for impact measurement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Inspiring Impact Group, a coalition of voluntary sector bodies seeking to provide collective leadership on measuring impact over the next 10 years, is considering encouraging funders to allocate at least 5 per cent of funding to evaluation and measurement.
The group, which includes NCVO, Acevo and Charities Evaluation Services (CES), met for the first time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Clegg’s tax threshold plan the best way to reduce income inequality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Nick Clegg’s call today to speed up the process of raising the tax threshold to £10,000 will lift one million people out of income tax. Clegg aims to reduce the UK’s excessive levels of income inequality, which should be welcomed, but there has always been controversy about whether this proposal is the best way to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you measure your impact or your outputs? Should you really consider your outcomes?</title>
		<link>http://www.eren.org.uk/index.php/archives/2077</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funders, commissioners and others often use concepts and terms from the language of planning, project management and performance improvement in different ways. This has led to widespread confusion about what particular terms mean and how to use them most appropriately.
www.jargonbusters.org.uk is a brand new website from Charities Evaluation Services (CES) and the Jargonbuster group. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DWP: Draft Occupational Pension Schemes and Pension Protection Fund (Equality) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 &#8211; A consultation</title>
		<link>http://www.eren.org.uk/index.php/archives/2074</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This consultation concerns amendments to the Equality Act 2010 and the Pensions Act 2004 to reflect development in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. These developments in European law mean that, where a pension scheme is equalising its benefits as between men and women, it has to assume a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government policies undermine equalities work, new research reveals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voluntary Sector North West has recently published research undertaken by CLES and partners at the Centre for Local Policy Studies exploring the impact of emerging government policies upon equalities issues in the North West. The research has found that:

Reforms have come at a cost
New forms of representation are weak and exclude equalities groups
Spending cuts are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality in social care practice: still a long way to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BME]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After improvements in local government training and recruitment, why aren&#8217;t there more BME social workers?
[Source: Roger Kline - The Guardian]
Like many readers, my heart leapt when I saw that Stephen Lawrence&#8217;s killers had been found guilty. The family&#8217;s campaign for justice, and the McPherson Inquiry they prompted, have changed forever how we treat racism. 
We should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>brap: ‘Reflections on the Stephen Lawrence verdict’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2012, brap published a briefing paper entitled ’18 years on: reflections on the Stephen Lawrence verdict’.
This paper uses the recent verdict in the Stephen Lawrence trial as an opportunity to reflect on what works in the promotion of equality, fairness, and cohesion.
Please visit the brap website to read the full briefing paper.
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		<title>Thirty NGOs call for protection for legal aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2012, the chief executives and directors of more than 30 non-governmental organisations, including the Equality and Diversity Forum, wrote to The Times asking that legal aid be protected where it matters most — ‘to people on low incomes struggling with complex and serious problems, unable to resolve them without specialist help’.
Please read the letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Neill gives more councils the go-ahead to tackle historic pay inequalities</title>
		<link>http://www.eren.org.uk/index.php/archives/2035</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communities Minister Bob Neill has today given more councils the go-ahead to tackle historic pay inequalities.
Thousands of local government employees &#8211; mostly women on low pay &#8211; are legally entitled to backdated pay following years of being paid less for doing equally valued jobs. Equal pay directions enable local authorities to settle their equal pay commitments [...]]]></description>
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