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Find out who is already committed to bringing Section 1 of the equality act to life

We call on the Prime Minister to tackle inequality by commencing section 1 of the Equality Act

The government has a powerful tool at its disposal: the socio-economic duty that forms the very first section of the Equality Act 2010. The duty requires strategic decision making by public bodies to:

‘have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage.’

Passed by Parliament in 2010, this duty has yet to be brought into force.

Commencing section 1 of the Equality Act will support transparency and evidence-based public policy. It will help the UK move towards ensuring an adequate standard of living for all, levelling the playing field between people from different socio-economic backgrounds.

As organisations and individuals committed to building a better society for all, we call on the Prime Minister to commence section 1 of the Equality Act.

1. 1. Just Fair
   2. Dr Wanda Wyporska, Executive Director, The Equality Trust
   3. Amnesty International UK
   4. Women’s Budget Group
   5. Omar Khan, Director, Runnymede Trust
   6. Andrew Copson, CEO, British Humanist Association
   7. UNISON
   8. Judith Moran, Director, Quaker Social Action
   9. Reverend Paul Nicolson, Founder, Taxpayers Against Poverty
   10. Professor Kate Pickett, University of York
   11. Professor Richard Wilkinson, University of Nottingham
   12. Dr Angela Donkin, Institute of Health Equity
   13. Professor Mike Savage, London School of Economics
   14. Jackie Longworth, Chair, Fair Play South West
   15. Tracey Lazard, CEO, Inclusion London
   16. Barry McDonald, Chair, Bromley Experts by Experience
   17. Andrew Lee, Director, People First (Self Advocacy)
   18. Joanne Munn, CEO, Greenwich Association for Disabled People
   19. Zeenat Jeewa, CEO, Asian People’s Disability Alliance
   20. Bill Phillips, Chair, Harrow Association of Disabled People
   21. David Stock, CEO, Southwark Disablement Association
   22. Salli Booth, Chair, Disabled People; 14% of Haringey (The 14%)
   23. Joyce Kallevik, Director, Wish
   24. Lucy Byrne, Chief Executive, Richmond Aid
   25. David Strong, Disability Advice Service Lambeth
   26. Odette Battarel, South East London Vision
   27. Roz Hardie, Director, Lewisham Disability Coalition
   28. Lisa Ehlers, CEO, Kingston Centre for Independent Living
   29. Linda Burnip, co-founder, Disabled People Against Cuts
   30. Caroline Collier, CEO, Inclusion Barnet
   31. Professor Paul Hunt, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health 2002-2008
   32. Professor Imti Choonara, University of Nottingham
   33. Professor David Gordon, University of Bristol
   34. Professor John Wright, Bradford Institute for Health Research
   35. Professor Helen Roberts, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
   36. Dr Philippa Bird, Bradford Institute for Health Research
   37. Professor Peter Dwyer, University of York
   38. Dr Anna Pearce, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
   39. Professor John Frank, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh
   40. Professor David Taylor-Robinson, University of Liverpool
   41. Professor Nick Spencer, Emeritus Professor of Child Health, University of Warwick
   42. Emeritus Professor Alan Maynard, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
   43. Professor Tim Doran, Professor of Health Policy, University of York
   44. Professor Becky Tunstall, Professor Emerita of Housing, University of York
   45. Dr Alice Donald, Middlesex University
   46. Dr Elspeth Webb, Honorary Professor of Child Health, Cardiff University
   47. Professor Lorna McGregor, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
   48. Rev Dr Richard Frazer, Convener of the Church of Scotland’s Church & Society Council
   49. Professor Sir John Hills, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
   50. Professor Nicola Lacey FBA CBE, School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
   51. Anne Kildunne, University of York
   52. Professor Matt Matravers, Director, Morrell Centre for Toleration, University of York
   53. Professor Colin Tyler, Professor of Social and Political Thought, University of Hull
   54. Women’s Resource Centre
   55. Christine Jackson, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Hull
   56. Lizzie Ette, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Hull
   57. Dr Anjula Gupta, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Tutor, University of Hull
   58. Lizzie Barmes, Professor of Labour Law at Queen May University of London, Co-director of QMUL School of Law’s Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity (LEAD)
   59. Baroness Glenys Thornton, CEO, The Young Foundation 
   60. Equality and Diversity Forum (29 members, 32 associates and 14 observers)
   61. Child Poverty Action Group
   62. Race on the Agenda
   63. Nourish Scotland
   64. Michael Wayne, Professor in Screen Media Brunel University
   65. Deirdre O’Neill, Inside Film
   66. Britain Has Class
   67. Professor Thomas Scharf, Professor of Social Gerontology, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University
   68. Community Links
   69. Health Poverty Action
   70. Dr Rupert Suckling, Director of Public Health for Doncaster Council
   71. Surviving Economic Abuse
   72. Dr Alya Khan, Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics, London Metropolitan University
   73. Prof Colm O’Cinneide, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, UCL
   74. Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS)
   75. Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley, Lancaster University Law School
   76. Shelter
   77. Human Rights Watch
   78. Thrive Teesside
   79. ATD Fourth World UK
   80. The Magpie Project
   81. Project 17
   82. Back to 60
   83. York Human Rights City network

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