The National Equality Panel sent invitations to a range of equality lobby groups and academics to submit evidence to the National Equality Panel’s call for evidence on economic inequality in the UK, in November 2008 to the end of January 2009. These groups included:
EHRC
Age Concern/Help the Aged
Children's Right’s Alliance
Child Commissioner
Child Poverty Action Group
Stonewall
Lesbian and Gay Foundation
1990 Trust
The Runnymede Trust
Operation Black Vote
The Evangelical Alliance
The Muslim Council of Great Britain
British Humanist Association
The Interfaith Network
The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales
The Church of England
The National Secular Society
The Jewish Board of Deputies
The Hindu Council
The British Council of Disabled People
Leonard Cheshire Foundation
MENCAP
MIND
RADAR
RNIB
RNID
SCOPE
Women’s National Commission
Fawcett Society
National Alliance of Women Organisations
Press for Change
CBI
British Retail Consortium
Federation of Small Business
ACAS
Audit Commission
ABI
IDeA
National and Diversity Forum
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
TUC
Consumer Focus
Engineering Employers Federation
The Tax Payers Alliance
Policy Exchange
Fabian Society
Institute for Public Policy Research
Pensions Policy Institute
Institute for Employment Studies
The New Policy Institute
One Parent Families
Shelter
And academics:
Professor. Danny Dorling
Professor. Jane Falkingham
Professor. Maria Evandrou
Dr. Anne Green
Professor Mark Stewart
Professor Gary Craig
Dr. Gloria Gordon
Glen Bramley
Jay Ginn
The invitation to submit evidence was also put online for anybody to respond to.
We received 25 responses, which are available online at:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/national_equality_panel/call_for_evidence.aspx