Councils face legal threat over equal opportunities
28 August 2012
The law could soon be used to force councils to ensure suppliers are promoting equal opportunities policies, race equality minister Fiona MacTaggart has warned.
She said "contract compliance", used in the US to check suppliers, was not yet being fully enforced in the UK.
But the Race Relations (Amendment) Act - brought in three years ago after the MacPherson report into the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence - provided the framework for doing so.
MacTaggart told the Society of Procurement Officers in Local...