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The law
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The Home Office
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The Commission for Racial Equality
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Race Equality Councils
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Defeating Organised Racial Hatred
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At the centre of UK race equality is UK and European legislation. This legislation is facilitated at a national level through a main central body called the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), and at local levels by local race equality councils (RECs) and organisations.
This page is a guide to racial equality with useful regional and national website links and a list of RECs operating in the Eastern region.
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The Law
In the UK, the main law dealing with racial discrimination is the Race Relations Act 1976, which was recently amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. This law makes it unlawful to discriminate against anyone on grounds of race, colour, nationality (including citizenship), or ethnic or national origin. It also places a statutory duty on public authorities to promote racial equality. For explanations of the Race Relations Act (Amended 2000), the implication of European legislation on UK law and for help in understanding your rights under the amended Race Relations Act, visit the following links at the Home Office and Commission for Racial Equality websites
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/comrace/race/raceact/index.html
www.cre.gov.uk/legaladv/rra.html
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The Home Office
The aims of Home Office are to:
- develop social policies that promote good race and community relations
- combat prejudice and xenophobia
- promote equal opportunities.
These aims are achieved through the Race Equality Unit who is responsible for taking forward the work of the Race Relations Act (Amended 2000); funding projects to develop black and minority ethnic (BME) community sector networks; and mainstreaming gender and race into policy development and service delivery across the public sector.
The Home Office also represent the UK on race equality issues at an international level at the European Union and the United Nations. For further information on the specific work of the Home Office and the Race Equality Teams of the Race Equality Unit visit the following link at the Home Office website
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/inside/org/dob/direct/reu.html
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Commission for Racial Equality
The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) tackles racial discrimination and promotes racial equality. Although publicly funded, it is a non-governmental body that has statutory powers to:
- Advise and assist on complaints
- Conduct investigations of companies and organisations where there is evidence of discrimination
- Take legal action
Visit the CRE website www.cre.gov.uk to obtain further information on the CRE, including its organisational structure, head and regional office contact details, how it can help fund local racial equality work and other useful website links.
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Race Equality Councils
The CRE provides funding for a number of Race Equality Councils (RECs) and organisations that work locally to promote racial equality and tackle racial discrimination in the Eastern region. To obtain further information on local racial equality initiatives and local partnership work, you can contact the following organisations by clicking on the following email links.
Bedford REC
Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum
Essec REC (Southend & Basildon)
Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality
Norfolk & Norwich REC
Peterborough REC
Watford REC
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BEDFORD RACE EQUALITY COUNCIL (BREC)
Anderson-Welsh
36 Mill Street
BEDFORD
MK40 3HD
Tel: (01234) 340728
Tel. (01234) 350459
Fax: (01234) 327487
E-mail: brec”at”fsmail.net (replace”at” with @)
Website: www.bedfordrec.org
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CAMBRIDGE ETHNIC COMMUNITY FORUM (CECF)
Eddie Stadnik
62-64 Victoria Road
CAMBRIDGE
CB4 3DU
Tel: (01223) 315877
Fax: (01223) 504303
E-mail: cecfenquiries”at”cecf.co.uk (replace”at” with @)
Website: www.cecf.co.uk
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ESSEX REC
Mr Mardner
HQ- Southend
Lower Ground Floor, Civic Centre
Victoria Avenue
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA
ESSEX
SS2 6EP
Tel: 01702 333351
Fax: 01702 333351 (or 01702 437318)
E-mail: erecsouthend”at”supanet.com
E-mail: erec.southend”at”btconnect.com
(replace”at” with @)
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Satelite Office (Basildon)
Pitsea Housing Office
Northlands Pavement
PITSEA, BASILDON
ESSEX
SS13 3DU
Tel: 01268 465068
Fax: 01268 465 067
E-mail: erecbasildon”at”supanet.com
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IPSWICH & SUFFOLK COUNCIL FOR RACE EQUALITY
Jane Basham
46A St Matthew's Street
IPSWICH
IP1 3EP
Tel: (01473) 408111
Fax: (01473) 400084
E-mail: office”at”iscre.org.uk (replace “at” with @)
Website: www.iscre.org.uk
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NORWICH & NORFOLK RACIAL EQUALITY COUNCIL
Anne Matin
North Wing
County Hall
Martineau Lane
NORWICH
NR1 2DH
Tel: (01603) 611644
Fax: (01603) 611646
E-mail: nnrec”at”hotmail.com (replace “at” with @)
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PETERBOROUGH RACE EQUALITY COUNCIL
Mahebub Ladha
34 Fitzwilliam Street
PETERBOROUGH
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
PE1 2RX
Tel: (01733) 554630
Fax: (01733) 312080
E-mail: prec”at”lineone.net (replace “at” with @)
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WATFORD RACE EQUALITY COUNCIL
Mr Ismail
149 The Parade
WATFORD
HERTFORDSHIRE
W17 1RH (or WD1 1NA?)
Tel: 01923 256044
Fax: 01923 240398
E-mail: info@watfordrec.org
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Defeating organised racial hatred
This link is to s resource pack from the commission for racial equality dealing with the rise of extremism and the inaccuracies, racism and misrepresentation that can divide communities: http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/Defeating_organised_racial_hatred.pdf
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