Getting Equal

On 13 March 2006 the UK government unveiled its promised proposals to outlaw sexual orientation discrimination in the provision of goods & services.

The government says it has already taken steps to establish "the principle that, in a modern and diverse society, it is not acceptable for someone to be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation." However they also say there is "clear evidence that LGB people are still facing unacceptable discrimination – whether deliberate or inadvertent – in their everyday lives."

Amongst other things the new proposals will make all schools deal properly with homophobic bullying, and if a school fails to deal with homophobic bullying as firmly as any other kind of bullying, for example racist bullying, they would be vulnerable to a claim of discrimination.

"Getting Equal" Proposals - pdf file 374k

I'll probably post more about the proposals another time.