Blog by EQUAL Chair, Iqbal Wahhab.

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Let me throw some disturbing facts at you:

· Black children are four times more likely to be arrested than white children.

· Since...

Serious Violence Reducation Orders (SVRO's) allow individuals to be stopped and searched at any time and in any public place, without the normal requirement for the police officer to have...

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.