The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling on positive action under the Equality Act 2010 (“EqA”) finding that it was lawful for a housing association to provide social housing only to members of an Orthodox Jewish community under s.158 and 193 of the EqA. Background The case involved a single mother of four […]
Charities have a duty of care to ensure their employees, volunteers, beneficiaries and anyone else that they have contact with in their work are protected from harm and abuse. To help with this responsibility the government has launched a new safeguarding tool to help charities make correct decisions when a safeguarding incident occurs. The tool […]
From 6 July 2017 a new Fundraising Preference Service was launched allowing members of the public to control direct marketing approaches from charities re fundraising communications. Why have a Fundraising Preference Service (FPS)? The FPS was set up by the Fundraising Regulator as a further means of restoring public trust and confidence in the charity […]
