Reform UK councillors have been advised by the party to use equality impact assessments despite the party’s pledge to scrap the Equality Act 2010.
An official booklet, distributed at Reform’s annual conference in Birmingham last month and produced for councillors in charge of adult social care, advocates for equalities to be embedded in “understanding how decisions affect local communities”.
It also says “whenever significant decisions are made, the council should consider how different groups within the community may be affected”.
“Regardless of the future legislative framework the principle of understanding how decisions affect local communities remains fundamental to good governance”.
It later adds that considering equalities issues can help “form the evidence base upon which good decisions are made”.
Full article at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-equality-act-councils-farage-labour-b3067555.html