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Diversity
These pages provide information and resources to help organisations working with homeless people address diversity issues.
What's new?
- Crisis has published a new report on women and homelessness Homeless Women: still being failed yet striving to survive
- Homeless Link and the Albert Kennedy Trust have joined forces to produce a new good practice resource for managers and frontline staff working with LGBT people who are homeless. No straight answers highlights some of the issues facing LGBT homeless people and offers top tips for managers, staff and LGBT people.
Organisations promoting diversity and equality
- Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) comes into being in October 2007, taking over the work of the EOC, CRE and DRC.
Other Resources
- BMEspark is a CLG-funded website on meeting the needs of BME clients in Supporting People services. Registration for the site is free.
- The Social Care Institute for Excellence has produced Are we there yet?, a discussion paper on identifying the characteristics of social care organisations that successfully promote diversity and Doing it for themselves: participation and black and minority ethnic service users.