Report

Vital institutions 01: Reform and renewal of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

This report from UK think tank the Future Governance Forum calls for the reform of the EHRC to strengthen equality and human rights protection for people living in the UK. 

Our recommendations for how the Commission can restore its credibility include: being politically neutral, leading public debates in sensitive areas and making greater use of its powers to work with housing, welfare and health regulators, where human rights concerns often go unaddressed.

And we have called on the government to support reform of the Commission by giving it multi-year budgets rather than annual budgets and giving parliamentary committees a bigger role in the appointment of future Commission chairs.

These changes will enable reform of the state to renew the nation, and we urge the Commission and government to make our recommendations a reality.”