Detailed information on the demographics of the creative workforce has been released for the first time in seven years.Continue reading Equality News Update: Arts Professional: Young people under-represented in the arts, research finds
Equality News Update: The Scotsman: Scotland’s main Highland Games body under pressure to offer transgender competitions
Scotland’s main Highland Games body, which has faced strong criticism over its lack of gender equality for female athletes, will today be under pressure to discuss including transgender non-binary categories in its events.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Scotsman: Scotland’s main Highland Games body under pressure to offer transgender competitions
Equality News Update: UEFA: Multicultural football festival promotes diversity
More than 200 players from 23 teams across Scotland descended upon Toryglen as the Scottish FA Multicultural Football Festival took centre stage.Continue reading Equality News Update: UEFA: Multicultural football festival promotes diversity
Equality News Update: Third Force News: DWP rejects plan to stop sanctioning most vulnerable
Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have rejected recommendations to protect the most vulnerable from benefit sanctions.Continue reading Equality News Update: Third Force News: DWP rejects plan to stop sanctioning most vulnerable
Equality News Update: Daily Record: More than £2.7m Best Start grants paid out to new parents in Scotland – here’s how to apply
The Scottish Government started taking applications for the Best Start grant – which provides eligible families with £600 after the birth of their first child and £300 after the birth of any later children – on December 10 last year.Continue reading Equality News Update: Daily Record: More than £2.7m Best Start grants paid out to new parents in Scotland – here’s how to apply
Equality News Update: The Guardian: Ministers urged to relax immigration rules on family reunions
The government is under pressure from MPs and charities to relax family reunion rules for refugees settled in the UK.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Guardian: Ministers urged to relax immigration rules on family reunions
Equality News Update: The Scotsman: Scottish Government to scrap jail sentences of less than 12 months
It was a ground-breaking event that broke the mould for how LGBT people across Scotland were viewed and treated.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Scotsman: Scottish Government to scrap jail sentences of less than 12 months
Equality News Update: The Herald: Two decades of Glasgay! How the legendary festival helped shape LGBT Scotland
It was a ground-breaking event that broke the mould for how LGBT people across Scotland were viewed and treated.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Herald: Two decades of Glasgay! How the legendary festival helped shape LGBT Scotland
Equality News Update: Aberdeen Evening Express: Trainees from diverse backgrounds given route into TV industry
A training programme has been launched to give young Scottish TV talent from diverse backgrounds a route into the industry.Continue reading Equality News Update: Aberdeen Evening Express: Trainees from diverse backgrounds given route into TV industry
Equality News Update: Fife Today: Plan aims to help tackle rural poverty in north east Fife
A new community plan for north east Fife could help tackle rural poverty in the area.Continue reading Equality News Update: Fife Today: Plan aims to help tackle rural poverty in north east Fife
Equality News Update: ITV News: Sheriffs and judges to receive training on domestic abuse legislation
All judges and sheriffs in Scotland will be given specific training on domestic abuse, it has been announced.Continue reading Equality News Update: ITV News: Sheriffs and judges to receive training on domestic abuse legislation
Equality News Update: The Courier: School meals may be served during holidays to prevent children going hungry
A lifeline could be thrown to hundreds of children whose lives are blighted by so-called holiday hunger.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Courier: School meals may be served during holidays to prevent children going hungry
Equality News Update: Aberdeen Evening Express: Scottish Government ranked 72nd in list of most LGBT inclusive employers
The Scottish Government has been included in a list of the 100 most LGBT inclusive employers in the UK.Continue reading Equality News Update: Aberdeen Evening Express: Scottish Government ranked 72nd in list of most LGBT inclusive employers
Equality News Update: Central Fife Times: Cowdenbeath MSP talks of a hero of the Holocaust
COWDENBEATH MSP Annabelle Ewing told the Scottish Parliament on Thursday that the mass killing of of the Holocaust must never be forgotten so that such callous and horrendous acts never happen again.Continue reading Equality News Update: Central Fife Times: Cowdenbeath MSP talks of a hero of the Holocaust
Equality News Update: The Guardian: Scotland unveils plans to become world leader in gender equality
Radical proposals intended to make Scotland a world leader in gender equality have been put forward in the first annual report from the country’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls.Continue reading Equality News Update: The Guardian: Scotland unveils plans to become world leader in gender equality