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APPENDICES TO THE SIXTH REPORT FROM THE
JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS
APPENDICES
70. Human Rights
and Public Authorities
A Report prepared for the Joint Committee
on Human Rights
Researched and written by Jeremy Croft
(January 2003)
CONTENTS
1.INTRODUCTION
2.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3.MAINSTREAMING HUMAN RIGHTS
3.1 Mainstreaming as a policy
3.2 Mainstreaming between the centre and
departments
3.3 Mainstreaming in departments
3.4 Mainstreaming between departments and
public authorities
3.5 Health
3.6 Local Government and Housing
3.7 The future of mainstreaming
4. SPREADING THE HUMAN RIGHTS MESSAGE
4.1 Building a "human rights culture"
in the public sector
4.2 Road shows
4.3 Defining and building a "human rights
culture" in public consciousness
5. PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS
6. LOCAL GOVERNMENT
6.1 Preparing local authorities for the introduction
of the Human Rights Act
6.2 Local Government Association
6.3 Local Government Human Rights Joint Liaison
Group
6.4 Association of Local Authority Risk Managers
6.5 Guidance provided by other bodies
6.6 District Audit
6.7 Three surveys
6.8 A Northern Metropolitan Borough Council
6.9 A Southern County Council
6.10 A Southern District Council
6.11 A Midlands District Council
6.12 A Welsh District Council
6.13 Current human rights practice in local
authorities
6.14 A human rights commission and local
government
7. HEALTH CARE
7.1 Supervision of health care organisations
and human rights
7.2 Health care organisations and the Human
Rights Act
7.3 Clinical guidance and human rights
7.4 Human rights guidance
7.5 A human rights commission and health
care
8. SOCIAL HOUSING
8.1 Application of the Human Rights Act to
social housing providers
8.2 Supervision of the social housing sector
8.3 Human rights guidance and social housing
8.4 Human rights issues and social housing
8.5 A human rights commission and social
housing
9. SCOTLAND
9.1 A Scottish Human Rights Commission
9.2 Scottish public authorities and human
rights
10. POINTERS FROM THE EQUALITIES COMMISSIONS
11. HUMAN RIGHTS NEEDS IN PUBLIC AUTHORITIES
AND THE FUNCTIONS OF A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
11.1 Defining and guiding the human rights
agenda
11.2 A public sector "duty to promote"
human rights?
11.3 Bringing test cases (settling cases
by public authorities)
12. WHY IS THERE NO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
TO ACCOMPANY THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT?
13. CONCLUSIONS
71. Executive Summary, Something for Everyone,
The British Institute of Human Rights
72. Memorandum from Sarah Spencer, Institute
for Public Policy Research
Call for Evidence: Equalities and Human Rights
73. Memorandum from the Refugee Council
74. Memorandum from The Prison Reform Trust
75. Memorandum from Friends, Families and
Travellers
76. Memorandum from Age Concern England
77. Memorandum from Camilla Parker, Legal
and Policy Consultant
78. Memorandum from Rabbi Julia Neuberger,
Chief Executive, the King's Fund
79. Memorandum from Help the Aged
80. Memorandum from The Commonwealth Human
Rights Initiative
2. If a Human Rights Commission were established,
how should its role and functions relate to those of this Committee?
INTERNATIONAL ROLE
81 Memorandum from MIND
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