{"id":3169,"date":"2020-08-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/home-office-ordered-to-publish-equality-assessment-of-eu-settlement-scheme"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T14:00:00","slug":"home-office-ordered-to-publish-equality-assessment-of-eu-settlement-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/home-office-ordered-to-publish-equality-assessment-of-eu-settlement-scheme","title":{"rendered":"Home Office ordered to publish equality assessment of EU Settlement scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Office has been ordered to publish a statement setting out the equality impacts of the EU Settlement scheme, after we made a complaint to the Information Commissioner.<br \/>\nThe scheme will force\u00a0significant numbers of EU citizens and non-EU family members out of status after the cut-off point next year. With so much at stake, the Home Office should be taking every possible step to protect people &#8211; instead, the department is trying to keep the risks a secret.\u00a0<br \/>\nFor months we have called on the Government to release the\u00a0Policy Equality Statement (PES) for the EU Settlement\u00a0scheme, but it has refused.\u00a0We complained about this secrecy to the UK\u2019s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner &#8211; who has given the Home Office 35 days to publish the statement, or 28 days to appeal.\u00a0<br \/>\nGet involved<br \/>\nAsk your MP to support reforms of the EU Settled Status scheme<br \/>\nRead more about the EU Settled Status scheme<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home Office has been ordered to publish a statement setting out the equality impacts of the EU Settlement scheme, after we made a complaint to the Information Commissioner. The scheme will force\u00a0significant numbers of EU citizens and non-EU family members out of status after the cut-off point next year. With so much at stake,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}