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Social Europe column that inequalities go together and so their opponents shouldn’t get drawn into rivalry.
Kate Pickett
A friend recently gave a seminar on the destructive impact of income inequality, laying out how deeply it damages a vast array of health and wellbeing outcomes, and how it affects the affluent as well as the poor, only to be asked during the question period with some acerbity why he was ignoring the deep and damaging inequalities between men and women.
I’ve frequently been asked the same question, with varying flavours. Why am I not writing about racial and ethnic inequalities instead of inequalities of income? Why am I not talking about the elderly or those with disabilities? What about migrants? And what about inequalities between the global north and south or between neighbourhoods? What is so significant about income anyway surely wealth matters more, or social class or power?
Rochdale headteacher part of new panel to tackle racism and discrimination Date published: 21 December 2020
Janice Allen, head of Falinge Park High School
The headteacher of a Rochdale high school has been named as a member of a new panel set up to tackle racism and discrimination.
Janice Allen, head of Falinge Park High School, is one of the 24 members chosen for their skills, knowledge, connections into their communities and their willingness to use their own personal experiences to challenge and support public services to tackle systemic inequalities, racism and discrimination.
Miss Allen, who has worked in education across Manchester and Salford secondary schools since 1998, said: It’s a real privilege to be appointed onto the panel.
Sarah Townsend
The combined authority has formed a 24-member panel of experts and leaders representing the city-region’s communities, designed to combat racism and race-related discrimination.
The Greater Manchester Race Equality Panel met for the first time last week, led by Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and Cllr Brenda Warrington, executive leader of Tameside Council and portfolio lead for age-friendly Greater Manchester and equalities at the Greater Manchester Combined Authority.
The panel intends to elect a chair, or co-chairs, at a future meeting. It has agreed two areas of work to address in early 2021:
Providing insight and input to the Independent Inequalities Commission report into systemic racism in Greater Manchester.