Category: Service Provision
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Appointment of new EHRC chair: revisited
Introduction The Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Phillipson MP, last week confirmed Dr Mary Ann Stephenson as the next Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)....
2nd August 2025
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Who is responsible for the cost to the public purse of Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Upton?
Introduction In this blog we try to answer the question of who is responsible for the decisions and costs to the public purse incurred in the case of Peggie...
30th July 2025
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Gender identity jargon vs inclusive communication: a case study
Image: Daily Mail 27 June 2025 Introduction Within the last decade, organisations have introduced jargon, derived from gender identity theory, that is hard to understand, inaccessible, or simply meaningless....
7th July 2025
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The threat to domestic violence support services for women in Edinburgh
Introduction This blog looks at a recent threat to funding provided by the City of Edinburgh Council to Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA). This arose from an objection to EWA’s...
16th June 2025
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Acting now on the Supreme Court judgment: Scottish Government premises as a case study
Introduction Following the clarification of the law by the Supreme Court, the Scottish Government has repeatedly stressed the need for the EHRC to issue a revised Code of Practice...
30th April 2025
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Who do politicians listen to and what questions should they ask? Rape Crisis Scotland as a case study
On 24 February, Lucy Hunter Blackburn spoke to the Forth Valley Feminist Gaithering in Falkirk. The event took place a few weeks after the hearing in the case of...
21st May 2024
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Edging back to normality? The report of the Scottish Government’s Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services
In 2021, the Scottish Government established an independent review to look at the funding and commissioning of services dealing with violence against women and girls (VAWG). Its report was...
9th June 2023
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Hard to reach or hard to hear? The price of finding women who count
In 2016, the Scottish Government committed to establish a First Minister’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls (NACWG), ‘to help drive forward action to tackle gender inequality’. The...
4th April 2023
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The erosion of single-sex hospital accommodation in Scotland
Outcry at failure to end mixed sex hospital wards ALMOST nine months after the Scottish Executive promised there would be no mixed sex wards in hospitals it emerged yesterday...
3rd December 2022
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MBM response to EHRC guidance for providers of separate and single-sex services
We welcome the new EHRC guidance for providers of separate and single-sex services. The guidance helpfully provides more detailed discussion of the issues, compared to previous EHRC guidance, and...
4th April 2022