Education

Abstract

This chapter looks at Part 6 of the Equality Act 2010, which sets out what is unlawful conduct in relation to education. Chapter 1 of Part 6 deals with schools; Chapter 2 with further and higher education; and Chapter 3 with general qualifications bodies. At the time of writing, there is no statutory code of practice in relation to either pre-16 education or further and higher education. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has produced non-statutory guidance, referred to as technical guidance, however, for schools and for further and higher education. There has been relatively little case law in the education field though what there has been has either been brought in the First-tier Tribunal (where disability discrimination cases in schools must be brought) or has tended to focus on race and religious discrimination and been litigated by way of judicial review.