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Issue 217: Charitable Status

  • Charitable Status

    10 May 2010

    Read between the lines
    Broadly speaking, I expect critical reaction to news that Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) are failing to implement comprehensive diversity and equality plans to come with a snort of some derision from the sector. The non-white population of Britain is just under 10% of the population overall; 21% of staff contractually employed by RFOs are from ethnically diverse backgrounds: so what’s the problem? If anything, should there be a celebration of the stats?... more

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