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Social Media victory for common sense and fair use policy copy left

As well, the Copyright Office granted the Electronic Frontier Foundation's fair-use argument for making "jailbreaking" a smartphone (breaking your iPhone's encryption to install non-Apple-approved software) legal.

Single Equalities Bill Brief

The Single Equalities Bill received Royal Assent on April 8, 2010. This new Bill is supposed to streamline the law, making equality legislation easier to understand and implement. With this Equality Bill 116 pieces of previous equality legislation are covered in this single Act. Under the Act individuals are given the right not to be treated unfairly due to their age, disability, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, or sexual orientation. A number of different types of discrimination are covered by the Act.

Total Place: A whole lot of love ?

A whole area approach to public services. Expectations about the quality of public services have also grown, but we know that to meet our commitments to reduce the deficit, we will need to make tough choices in public services. This year’s Budget sets out the Government’s clear plans to protect key public service priorities while meeting its commitments to halve the deficit over the next four years. The compelling and ambitious vision which we have for local government and local public services will enable us to achieve that goal.

Cabinet Office Structural Reform Plan

The actions in the Structural Reform Plan may be subject to the Autumn Spending

Love Human Rights, working with Liberity

Join Our campaign, to increase understanding and respect for human rights, countering the damaging myths about the Human Rights Act. Find out more about human rights here and show them some love by sharing this link:

Equality Bill has passed into law

The Equality Bill, received Royal Assent yesterday. It contains a series of measures for tackling inequalities which the Commission considers will help Britain to become a fairer society. Some of the specific measures in the bill, which the Commission has supported, include:

The Price of Race Inequality

The title ‘the Price of Race Inequality reflects the fact that the current economic crisis poses a unique challenge to Britain

Criminal Records Checks consultation

Consultation on statutory requirements and advice, for CRB disclosures for safeguarding purposes, on workers already registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.

Budget 2010

During the economic downturn the Government has provided a wide range of support to help people and businesses. You can find details of this government action, along with more detail of the Budget 2010 measures and announcmements, on the following pages. : a two-year Stamp Duty holiday for first-time buyers on residential property transactions up to £250,000; : maintaining the Standard Interest Rate applied to the Support for Mortgage Interest scheme until December 2010; and : launching the Saving Gateway in July 2010. This is where the Government adds 50 pence for each £1 saved by working age people on low incomes.