Equality Act 2010 and its Duties: How do you use yours?

At Nottingham Conference Centre today for "The Equality Act 2010 and its Duties: How do you use yours?" This is our conference for Voluntary and Community Sector organisations - and here's a list of such organisations represented here today. Most of these are live links to their website (in the East Midlands, if one is available). A small number don't appear to have any online presence, local, regional or national.

• Action Housing & Support
• Age UK
• Akwaaba Ayeh
• Amaani Tallawah
• Aphasia Leicester Group
• Barnardos
• Bassetlaw Mind
• Building Community Bridges
• Campaign for Tackling Acquired Deafness
• Carers Action
• Central Notts Mind
• Community Advice and Law Service
• Consultancy Works
• Corby Community Partnership
• Crown Prosecution Service East Midlands
• Derby ABEC (Asian Black Ethnic Community) Network
• Derby and Derbyshire Race and Equality Commission
• Derbyshire Coalition for Independent Living
• Derbyshire Friend LGBT Support Service
• Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group
• Derbyshire Learning & Development Consortium
• Derbyshire Rainbow Fringe Festival
• Develop a Dream
• Disability Direct
• Disabled People's Advocacy
• Enable Housing Association
• Genesis Links
• Glossop Community Transport
• High Peak Access
• Home Instead Senior Care
• Hostels Liaison Group
• Leicester Aids Support Service
• Leicester Deaf Action Group
• Mears Home Improvement
• Midlands Community Association
• NCC LGBT Staff Network Group
• New Basford Community Centre
• Northampton Volunteering Centre
• Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council
• Nottingham Inter-Faith Council
• Nottingham Mencap
• Nottingham Regional Society for Adults and Children with Autism
• One East Midlands
• Rainbows Children's Hospice
• Remploy
• Repton
• Roads to Recovery
• Scope
• Sight ED
• Signing Network
• Social Housing Connection
• South Lincolnshire Mind
• Speak up 4 urself Children's Advocacy
• Step Ahead Alcohol Service
• Trans Resource Empowerment
• Urban Angel
• West Area Project

We have a large room that we use for exhibitions and promotional materials for organisations which are members of REDP's Core Reference Group. It's a varied and interesting display, which shows the diversity of our partnership in a more concrete form than I've ever seen it before. REDP's new set of leaflets is on show; they attract a lot of interest and several compliments.

In the morning, we have three speakers:

Katrina Lidbetter, Deputy Head of Strategy, Government Equalities Office: The Government's view: The New Direction for Equality and Diversity" 

Amanda Arris, Chief Executive, Equality and Diversity Forum: "The Equality Act 2010 in detail and the implications for NGOs"

Andrew Hogan, Barrister, Ropewalk Chambers: "What can be done when the Equality Act 2010 has been breached"

In the afternoon, we have four 50-minute workshops, each of which is delivered twice:

Crown Prosecution Service East Midlands

Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership

Strategic Health Authority

Unity Law

In the photo above are (on the left) Grace Moronfolu (Equality and Diversity manager, East Midlands) and Adele Clarke (Area business Manager, East Midlands) who led the workshops for the CPS.

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