LOCOG Deflects Equality Responsibilities

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LOCOG continues to deflect equality responsibilities. See article in"The Guardian." 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/19/london-2012-japan-australia-sexism. 

British National Champion Canoeist Samantha Rippington is not asking for events in 2012. She requests in a claim for judicial review that the Equality Act 2010 requires LOCOG to carry out an “equality impact assessment” of the Olympic sports programme, including canoeing. This, she argues, is necessary to demonstrate compliance with the public sector equality duty contained in section 149 of the Equality Act, according to which public authorities must, “in the exercise of [their] functions, have due regard to the need to… eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity… [and] foster good relations between [women and men]…” She claims that LOCOG’s refusal to carry out the assessment, in a letter to her lawyers in April 2012, is in breach of section 149 of the Equality Act.

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