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Review Panel awayday, 20 April 2006

Venue

Room 1.35
22 Whitehall
London

Attendees

Review Panel
Trevor Phillips (Chair)
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas
Sir Robert Kerslake

Review Team
Rosie Seymour
Emma Cole
Stephen Earl
Uma Moorthy

Apologies
Carol Lake
Cathy Francis
Giovanni Razzu

In attendance
Professor Anthony Heath, Oxford University
Mike Hope, DWP
Nahid Majid, DWP
Rebecca Eligon, MORI
Angela Mason, DLR and DTI

1. Chair's update

Trevor set out the overarching aim for the day – to discuss the second phase of the Review. In this phase, the Panel would

This schedule would generate output which would be timely for the new CEHR. He thanked the Team for their work in producing the Interim Report. He also thanked his colleagues on the Review Panel for their input.

The Panel agreed that the three main tasks for the Review over the next six months are to:

The Panel discussed related work within Government in general, such as the Domestic Affairs Sub-committee on Communities, and the implementation of the Women and Work Commission report within the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). They agreed to carry out a programme of consultation among a wide variety of opinion-formers and stake-holders over the next six months.

2. Foundations for Measuring Equality – Professor Anthony Heath (Oxford)

Professor Heath attended for this item. He  presented the results of his analysis of labour market data from the Labour Force Survey and other longitudinal data sources.

The Panel agreed that the presentation shed useful light on how ethnicity and generational effects impact on the probability of employment for different groups in the UK. Professor Heath would update the analysis with the latest available data and conduct additional analyses on how age and place of birth affected respondents’ perceptions of employment discrimination in the Home Office Citizenship Survey. The Team would arrange a seminar on these issues involving the three Commissions and interested Departments as together with academics, including Professor Berthoud.

3. Attitudinal Research by MORI

Rebecca Eligon from MORI attended for this item. She  presented a summary of the results from the focus groups commissioned by the Review and conducted by MORI..

The Panel commented that the area of equality was not the subject of informed public debate. There was more scope for attitudinal research by the Review, particularly on the boundaries between public and private spheres and public perceptions of what constitutes a suitable target for official intervention. The Team would also follow up the attitudinal work being carried out in preparation for the CEHR in DTI.

4. Discrimination Law Review

Angela Mason, Director of the Discrimination Law Review, attended for this item to update the Panel about the Discrimination Law Review. She outlined the aim to produce a Green Paper before Parliamentary Recess and to follow this with a twelve-week consultation period.

5. Next steps

The Panel would focus on the three tasks identified at the beginning of the meeting. The public consultation events scheduled for May would support this work.

The Team was asked to identify the main tasks for the next six months, including

Equalities Review Team
April 2006