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Welcome to SQA's Equalities web page. This section of our website is to ensure that SQA meets its obligations under the Equality Act 2010 in the interest of openness and transparency.
The Equality Act 2010 introduces a new public sector equality duty on SQA. From 5 April 2011 the general equality duty requires SQA to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations across a range of protected characteristics. These include age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation.
We are committed to promoting equality across all our activities and will continue to mainstream equality into our operations for the benefit of all our staff and customers. We are currently updating our equalities web pages and reviewing our work to ensure we meet the requirements of the new public sector equality duty.
Until the specific duties for Scotland are introduced we will consider the interim guidance published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Our Annual Equality Review 2010 highlights our main achievements in promoting equality and implementing our equality action plans in the last year.
Dr Janet Brown
Chief Executive
