Enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010.

To enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010. This requires public bodies to consider inequalities resulting from socio-economic disadvantage when making certain decisions. Successive governments have not enacted the Duty.

This petition closed on 29 May 2025 with 222 signatures


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We think income and wealth inequalities have devastating effects on the lives of the working class in the UK. We think the Equality Act 2010 was a significant step in tackling social and economic inequalities. Chief amongst its measures was the Socio-economic Duty, ‘designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage’.
We think the unenacted first part of the Equality Act can help initiate a wider change in tackling entrenched class discrimination.


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