Equality and Human Rights Mainstreaming Strategy: Consultation - Easy Read

Reporting on equality and human rights

The Scottish Government and public bodies already follow laws about mainstreaming including:

• The Equality Act 2010
• the Public Sector Equality Duty

To follow these laws, we must tell people how we are making things fair for everyone.

We already write reports about this, so we are not planning for the Strategy to need new kinds of reports.

Here is what we already do:

• every 2 years we write a mainstreaming report

This shows how we are making equality part of everything we do.

• we tell the United Nations how Scotland is doing with people's rights through treaty reporting

Treaty reporting is when countries tell a special group how they are following the fair rules they promised.

• we write about children's rights because of a new law

• the Scottish Government has also accepted a recommendation from the National Advisory Council on Women and Girls.

It says to write every year about what work the Scottish Government is doing on gender mainstreaming.

Gender mainstreaming means making sure policies treat people of all genders fairly and give them the same choices and chances.

The recommendation also says to have a debate in the Scottish Parliament about gender policy - how policies affect people of all genders.

These reports help us show how we follow the laws and how we are trying to be fair to everyone in Scotland.

The Strategy will help organisations to follow these laws.

Question

26. What do you think about having more reporting requirements?