University of Derby report on ‘Religion and Belief discrimination in England and Wales – a decade of change’

A team at the University of Derby has produced a ‘research informed policy brief’ on religion and belief discrimination in England and Wales that charts the changing attitudes and responses to this over the course of 2001-2011.  Published in August, it deals with policy frameworks that have been put in place over that time to seek to overcome issues of discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief. It also presents a ‘three-fold’ policy approach structured around the ‘Christian’ ‘Non-religious’ and ‘religiously pluralistic’ aspects of religion and belief equalities.

The report sets out a ‘three-dimensional’ policy framework to deal with discrimination felt by religion and belief groups from wider society; discrimination by religion and belief groups against others in wider society; and discrimination within/between religion and belief groups.

The report can be downloaded from: http://www.derby.ac.uk/files/
policy_brief.pdf