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Re: Coalition cuts could have broken equality laws, watchdog says
You do realise it is not the "inequality of the cuts" that was deemed to be wrong, but the fact that an assessment of the impact of the cuts under the Equality guidelines was not undertaken.
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They were tasked with judging the extent to which the Treasury complied with the Public Sector Equality Duty, which forces departments to analyse the likely effect of its policies on any relevant “protected groups”.
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Even if the assessment had said there was an adverse impact, they would still have gone ahead.
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