A report explored what employers and young people in Wales thought were the barriers to, and opportunities for, pursuing careers in non-traditional occupations.
Source: Vanessa Beck, Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin, Employers, Young People and Gender Segregation (Wales), Working Paper 29, Equal Opportunities Commission (0161 833 9244)
Links: Report (pdf)
Date: 2005-Jul
The race equality watchdog said that none of the key public bodies in Wales had properly met the statutory duty to introduce effective ethnic monitoring of their employment practices.
Source: Press release 27 June 2005, Commission for Racial Equality (020 7939 0000)
Links: CRE press release
Date: 2005-Jun
The Welsh Assembly Government announced that families with disabled children would no longer have to pass a means test for the disabled facilities grant (available to fund adaptations that enabled disabled people to continue to live in their own homes).
Source: Press release 27 April 2005, Welsh Assembly Government (029 2082 5111)
Links: WAG press release | Mencap press release
Date: 2005-Apr
A report provided an account of the circumstances of young asylum-seekers in Wales. A third of children seeking asylum in Wales said they experienced racial abuse.
Source: Uncertain Futures, Save the Children in Wales (029 2034 5224)
Links: Summary | WAG press release
Date: 2005-Feb
