TO	Home Office
FROM	EQUAL
DATE	6 November 2020
REGARDING	Serious Violence Reduction Orders

Our Interest in this matter

1. EQUAL National Independent Advisory Group (NIAG) works collaboratively to improve outcomes...

The school to prison pipeline is alive and well in the UK.

The disproportionate exclusion of black boys by schools leads to a stark over-representation of black youth in the...

It will come as no surprise to black and Asian young people that they were twice as likely to be given Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for breaches of the Covid-19...

THE LACK OF SAFEGUARDS AGAINST DISPROPORTIONATE USE OF PAVA As members of EQUAL, a National Independent Advisory Group (NIAG) that works collaboratively to address the poorer outcomes experienced by BAME and Muslim people in the criminal justice system, we write to express our increasing concern at the lack of safeguards against discrimination as the prison service expands the availability of PAVA spray.

Last week Shadae Cazeau, EQUAL's Head of Policy, gave evidence to the Commons Justice Committee. It was their third session on youth justice and was on children and young people...