Rose Doran and Michael Keating
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426956
- eISBN:
- 9781447303084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426956.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter describes the potential impact of the new Equality Act at a local level. It discusses how a developed understanding of social cohesion provides a broader moral and long-term context for ...
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This chapter describes the potential impact of the new Equality Act at a local level. It discusses how a developed understanding of social cohesion provides a broader moral and long-term context for decisions about community leadership and public-service delivery in local government. The chapter also argues the importance of grounding broad philosophical concepts and policies of community/social cohesion in the reality of understanding and addressing local inequality and disadvantage. The new Equality Act sets out to strengthen protection, advance equality, and simplify the law through a range of specific actions. Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has long had a dedicated resource for work on equalities, recently joined by community cohesion. The two councils that have so far achieved ‘excellent’ status – The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council – are reported.Less
This chapter describes the potential impact of the new Equality Act at a local level. It discusses how a developed understanding of social cohesion provides a broader moral and long-term context for decisions about community leadership and public-service delivery in local government. The chapter also argues the importance of grounding broad philosophical concepts and policies of community/social cohesion in the reality of understanding and addressing local inequality and disadvantage. The new Equality Act sets out to strengthen protection, advance equality, and simplify the law through a range of specific actions. Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has long had a dedicated resource for work on equalities, recently joined by community cohesion. The two councils that have so far achieved ‘excellent’ status – The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council – are reported.
