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<p>The specific duties of the public sector equality duty apply to most public bodies
in England, such as local authorities and schools; most public authorities operating
across Great Britain, such as Government departments (except on devolved functions);
and a small number of public bodies operating across one of the borders inside Great
Britain. These duties also apply to decision-makers who are not public authorities
but exercise public functions. Public bodies subject to the specific duties must publish
information to show their compliance with the public sector equality duty. The information
must include:</p><ul><li>information relating to people who are affected by the public
body’s policies and practices, such as service users, and who share protected characteristics;</li><li>and
for public bodies with 150 or more employees, information relating to those of the
public body’s employees who share protected characteristics.</li></ul><p>The specific
duties are intended to enable better performance of the public sector equality duty,
but there is no requirement to hold or publish information to any particular level
of detail. Similarly, there is no prescribed format. It is up to each public body
to decide for itself what information it publishes. This will vary greatly depending
on the size of the body, the range of functions it performs, and the extent to which
those functions could affect equality.</p><p>However, public bodies and decision-makers
who think that their decisions may affect discrimination, harassment, or victimisation
of Sikhs, affect equality of opportunity between Sikhs and people of different ethnicity,
or affect Sikhs’ relations with people of different ethnicity, should ensure that
their compliance with the duty includes considerations of Sikh ethnicity.</p>
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