Nursery World - Policy Q&A: The Equality Act 2010 - Discrimination claims may now be easier

What might nursery managers need to be prepared for since the Equality Act came into force? Karl Deakin considers the issues.

You no doubt have heard about the Equality Act in the press and media. The Equality Act was enacted by the Labour Government in April 2010 and came into force on 1 October 2010. The Act seeks to consolidate a fleet of legislation dating from the Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Acts, which came into force in the 1970s, through to much more recent legislation, including the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Age Discrimination Regulations which came into force in the last decade. Largely, the Act has achieved this aim and in the process makes a number of provisions which apply the law more consistently.

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