Customer Equality Reference Group
The aim of the DWP Customer Equality Reference Group is to help the Department involve customers in diversity issues and to act as a consultative group for the Department’s proposals when implementing Equality legislation The Group usually meets twice a year.
The Group provides a more insightful level of customer involvement through a mix of its experience across the range of the Department’s policies and services and its background knowledge of equality legislation and codes of practice. Representatives offer their views as individuals with personal experience and as representatives of their communities.
Meetings
23 November 2011
The 23 November 2011 meeting discussed the Department’s proposals for meeting its duties under the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Previous meetings
- 7 October 2010 – summary of meeting – Equality Schemes Customer Reference Group meeting (24KB)
- 2 March 2010 – summary of meeting (33KB)
- 22 September 2009 – summary of meeting (23KB)
Representative groups
- Action for Blind People
- Albert Kennedy Trust
- Archibald Foundation
- Black Training and Enterprise Group
- British Federation of Racial Equality Councils/Kingston Race and Equalities Council
- British Humanist Society
- Dial UK
- Diversiton
- Equality 2025
- Irish Traveller Movement in Great Britain
- National AIDS Trust
- National Women’s Commission
- North West Equality and Diversity Group
- Oxfam UK
- Press for Change
- RADAR – the disability network
- RNID
- Stonewall
- TAEN – The Age and Employment Network
- UK Council on Deafness
- Union of Muslim organisations of UK and Eire
- Women’s Budget Group
Contacts
For further information about the group, please contact:
Ann Cooper – Ann.Cooper3@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Jill Smith – Jill.Smith@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
