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Posted: May 20, 2008 in Help the Aged

Dear Councillor Macpherson We’re very grateful for your support of our Just Equal Treatment campaign over the past year, and keep a regular eye on your blog for updates you may receive following your letters to ministers. As the forthcoming Equality Bill looms closer, we’re intensifying our campaign, and have launched a viral video to [...]

I have mentioned in previous blog entries that, over the last year, Help the Aged has been calling for age discrimination to be included in the new Equalities Bill. Last month over 500 people supported the campaign by emailing Harriet Harman MP and calling for an end to age discrimination. I myself wrote to the [...]

I recently featured a blog entry about Help the Aged’s excellent campaign against age discrimination. Older people face age discrimination every day and Help the Aged is campaigning for a new law on age equality to give older people protection against age discrimination. I wrote to the Minister responsible (Harriet Harman MP) and have now [...]

Stop age discrimination

Posted: March 2, 2008 in Help the Aged

Older people face age discrimination every day. A new law on age equality would give older people the same protection against age discrimination that currently exists against other forms of discrimination including race, sex and disability. At Westminster there’s recently been a review of laws on discrimination, with Harriet Harman MP (as Leader of the [...]