The Tackling Racial Inequality Project aims to reduce racial inequality in the criminal justice system. The Project will hold the government to account on adhering to the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) and producing rigorous Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs).
The Tackling Racial Inequality Project is working to:
- Empower criminal justice civil society organisations, equipping them with the expertise to identify and challenge racially discriminatory policies through an ‘advocacy toolkit’.
- Inform officials in criminal justice agencies on how to improve Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) through specialist guidance.
- Challenge the government where we believe the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) has not been adhered to.
- Establish and work with an Equalities Expert Group of CJA members and legal experts to co-produce a PSED advocacy toolkit.
- Launch and disseminate the toolkit widely among criminal justice civil society organisations, encouraging them to implement its recommendations in their daily work.
- Facilitate training workshops with CJA members.
- Work with the CJA Equalities Expert Group to develop good practice guidance for criminal justice public bodies on the PSED and EIAs, drawing on good practice from other sectors.
- Build relationships with relevant public sector officials who will support, champion and embed the guidance.
- Influence the Ministry of Justice and Home Office to publish an assessment of the cumulative impact of all their policies where individual policy EIAs indicate direct or indirect discrimination with regard to race across their department.
- Establish and work with an Equalities Expert Group of CJA members and legal experts to co-produce a PSED advocacy toolkit.
- Launch and disseminate the toolkit widely among criminal justice civil society organisations, encouraging them to implement its recommendations in their daily work.
- Facilitate training workshops with CJA members.
- Work with the CJA Equalities Expert Group to develop good practice guidance for criminal justice public bodies on the PSED and EIAs, drawing on good practice from other sectors.
- Build relationships with relevant public sector officials who will support, champion and embed the guidance.
- Influence the Ministry of Justice and Home Office to publish an assessment of the cumulative impact of all their policies where individual policy EIAs indicate direct or indirect discrimination with regard to race across their department.
The ‘Empowering Civil Society: Using the Public Sector Equality Duty to tackle race disparity in the criminal justice system’ toolkit was launched at an event in January 2023.
