Higher education: student finance: the Education (Student Support) (Amendment) Regulations 2014: equality analysis
Under the Equality Act 2010, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), as a public authority, is legally obliged to give due regard to equality issues when making policy decisions - the public sector equality duty, also called the general equality duty. Analysing the effects on equality of these regulations through developing an equality impact assessment is one method of ensuring that thinking about equality issues is built into the policy process, and informs Ministers' decision making. The general equality duty covers the following protected characteristics: age, disability, ... Show more
Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
Published: London, England, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 2014
Resource type: Government information
Physical description: 32 p.
Access item: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364389/bis-14-1097-higher-education-student-finance-education-regulations-equality-analysis.pdf
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