1. Cyfnewidfa Cydraddoldeb a Hawliau Dynol Digwyddiad Rhanbarthol Equality and Human Rights Exchange Regional Event 13 September 2016, Disability Sport Wales 15 September 2016, Glyndwr University 20 September, Swansea University

2. Agenda
9.30 Tea and Coffee Welcome Update on the working of the EHRC Kerry Wakefield, EHRC Wales Attitudes and Behaviour Paul Hossack, EHRC Wales Lunch Hate Crime / PSED Kerry Wakefield/Paul Hossack, EHRC Wales Creating a faith friendly workplace for Muslim people / PSED Kerry Wakefield/Paul Hossack, EHRC Wales Tea and coffee networking End

3. EHRC Wales Work Programme
Is Wales Fairer?
Pregnancy and Maternity
Annual Equality and Human Rights Exchange Conference
Political Update – Who Runs Wales
Housing Inquiry
Race / Hate Crime Report

4. EHRC Wales Work Programme
Manifesto for Change
Website
Wales Review
Access to Justice
PSED
Creating a Friendly workplace for Muslim People

5. Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
Equality and Human Rights Exchange

6. Overview Context and aims of the work
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Overview
Context and aims of the work
Stage one: evidence gathering and key findings
Stage two: develop, test and learn 02

7. Context and aims Presentation name
Equality and Human Rights Exchange, Wales
Context and aims 03

8. Context and aims of the work
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Context and aims of the work
Current insights into how prejudice can lead to discrimination, identity-based harassment and violence across protected characteristics.
Identify ‘successful’ approaches to changing unlawful behaviour.
Inform how the Commission and other key agencies can reduce prejudice and unlawful behaviour.
A two-stage project
Stage one: evidence gathering
Stage two: develop, test and learn ‘what works’ with key partners 04

9. Phase one Evidence and key findings Presentation name
Equality and Human Rights Exchange, Wales
Phase one
Evidence and key findings 05

10. Stage one: evidence gathering
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Stage one: evidence gathering
Based on a systematic literature review, which looked at evidence from Great Britain (between 2005 and 2015) on three topics:
What is the relationship between prejudice and unlawful discrimination, identity-based harassment and violence?
What is the prevalence of unlawful behaviour based on prejudice?
‘What works’ to prevent or respond to unlawful behaviour related to prejudice?
The report uses a set of criteria to assess the robustness of evaluations. These tell us how confident we can be in what each evaluation tells us about ‘what works’.
This helps us to understand where to focus during stage two of the work. 06

11. Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
Equality and Human Rights Exchange, Wales
1. What is the relationship between prejudice and unlawful discrimination?
Prejudice can be direct and explicit…or subtle and indirect.
Prejudice involves different elements. These affect the settings in which discrimination can arise and the forms it can take. Some elements are:
Categorisation and stereotypes, emotions, social norms, and the wider social context are just some elements that can play a role.
There is little direct evidence that directly maps individuals’ values and attitudes on the one hand and particular acts of discrimination on the other. However, there is a lot of theory and international evidence that supports that these values, prejudice and behaviour are connected.
Prejudice is important, but it’s not the only factor in whether or not individuals take part in discrimination or identity-based harassment or violence towards a person or group of people. 07

12. 2. How prevalent is discrimination?
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2. How prevalent is discrimination?
Different sources of evidence give us a varied picture of prevalence.
Police recorded data
Surveys
Academic studies
Clear evidence that all people with protected characteristics are exposed to discrimination, some of which is unlawful
The quantity and quality of evidence of discrimination is very uneven and varied, and it is more plentiful for some protected characteristics than others.
There was less evidence on prevalence for Wales only, compared to that for England and Wales combined (e.g., police recorded hate crimes)
This makes it very difficult to confidently judge the levels of prejudice and discrimination experienced by people with and who share different protected characteristics in different countries in GB. 09

13. Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
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3. What are effective ways to prevent or respond to discriminatory behaviour?
The review captured 18 different interventions that had been used to reduce or prevent discrimination, including the following unique to Wales:
Most happened in educational settings (for example, schools)
Most used some form of contact between different groups. This ranged from real face-to-face relationships to imagined situations
A lack of (robust or any) evaluation prevents understanding of what works, when, and for whom.
Evaluations need to be ‘well evidenced’ so that we can learn from them. However, there can be barriers to robust evaluation including time, resources and expertise. 11

14. Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
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3. What are effective ways to prevent or respond to discriminatory behaviour?
Some interventions tested in Wales:
2008: The use of a virtual learning environment to support students to discuss racism with other students in the USA and South Africa showed increased knowledge and understanding of racism.
2013: A local campaign in Caerphilly – Age really IS just a number! used an exhibition of images to challenge age stereotypes, which led to higher awareness of the impact of stereotypes on how we think about age.
2015: KiVa pilot (Wales). This programme addresses identity-based bullying in schools more generally by building social and friendship skills, rather than focusing on specific protected characteristics. 12

15. Suggestions for research and policy
Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
Scotland, without prejudice? 12/9/2016
Suggestions for research and policy
Data and measurement
Better quality and standard of measurement
More research is needed on the perspectives of perpetrators
Development of a framework that brings together comparable objectives across different protected characteristics
Improve the strength and quality of evaluations
Developing interventions and assessing what works
Greater insight is needed into which interventions might work best
The effectiveness of future interventions should ideally be evaluated to high standards within one setting before applying them to others
More work is needed to establish the advantages of interventions that take a more general approach to reducing prejudice 13

16. Stage two Develop, test and learn Prejudice and unlawful behaviour
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Stage two
Develop, test and learn 15

17. Stage two: develop, test and learn
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Stage two: develop, test and learn
Test out approaches through pilots and summarise the learning to inform future action by the Commission and other key agencies
Work with key partners to develop, test and learn ‘what works’ to reduce unlawful behaviour. Pilots will be selected that will allow us to learn more about what is effective, what is transferable, and what is scalable.
Identify key partners and strategic projects
3-6 month pilots
Evaluate along key outcome measures 16

18. Discussion How do these findings resonate with you
What is the same and what is different?
What interventions are your organisations (or other organisations) doing or planning to do, and will the impact of these be evaluated?
What tools should EHRC develop during the next stage of the project, and what should be test?

19. Thank you wales@equalityhumanrights.com
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