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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

The Tackling Racial Inequality Project

Systems ChangeEquity, Diversity & InclusionThe Tackling Racial Inequality Project

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:

  1. Empower criminal justice civil society organisations, equipping them with the expertise to identify and challenge racially discriminatory policies through an ‘advocacy toolkit’.
  2. Inform officials in criminal justice agencies on how to improve Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) through specialist guidance.
  3. Challenge the government where we believe the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) has not been adhered to.

In January 2023, the CJA launched the toolkit: ‘Empowering Civil Society: Using the Public Sector Equality Duty to tackle race disparity in the criminal justice system’.  The toolkit aims to equip civil society organisations with the expertise to identify and challenge racially discriminatory policies in the criminal justice system (CJS).