Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone has announced that now taxpayers would have access to information related to the efforts made by the public sector organisations in curbing inequality. The new consultation on the public sector Equality Duty that began recently, seeks to bring transparency by making it mandatory for the Public sector organisations to publish more information about their initiatives in bringing equality in the system. In other words, they will be answerable for their actions not to the civil servants in
The Minister further opined that equality is very essential for ensuring fair and more efficient public services to build a just society. However, earlier initiatives reduced the importance of equality to simply a box ticking exercise and a strong bureaucracy. Public sector concentrated more on red tape than results.
The new Equality Duty will ensure that people receive adequate and correct information about what these public bodies do to end discrimination in public services and workforce. Based on the data, citizens can grade their performance and express their opinions accordingly. The most important thing is efficiency and equality in public services rather than following time-consuming and expensive procedures.
Most importantly, it will do away with the three separate duties imposed on the government departments, local authorities and other public bodies, which requires them to focus on gender, race and disability equality as employers, policy makers and as service providers. It will also include age, religion and belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
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