Office for Tackling Injustices

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The Office for Tackling Injustices (OfTI) is a proposed UK government body announced on 12 July 2019. [1] It was said by Prime Minister Theresa May that it would work independently to encourage future governments to focus on addressing inequalities in society. [2] The body would collect evidence on disparities in areas including socio-economic background, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation. [3] Its role would be limited to collecting and publishing data, and it would not make any policy recommendations, [4] [5] leading it to criticism for duplicating data-gathering functions already performed by bodies such as the Office for National Statistics. [6] The Guardian described the OfTI as a way for May to secure a legacy before a new leader was elected by the Conservative Party membership. [7]

In March 2020, The Observer reported that the organisation had not convened or submitted a budget since its inception, with one unidentified participant stating "(it) doesn't exist – it is never going to exist. It has been thrown into the long grass... People involved in it have never even been told what the plan was. They have heard nothing." [8]

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  2. ↑ "Office for Tackling Injustices :Written statement - HCWS1723". www.parliament.uk. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "Theresa May announces body to tackle social injustice". BBC News . 12 July 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Kentish, Benjamin (12 July 2019). "Theresa May announces new 'Office for Tackling Injustices' as part of her legacy plan". The Independent . Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "The new Office for Tackling Injustices needs "a clear remit to avoid duplication"- EHRC". PoliticsHome . 12 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. ↑ Hill, Henry (13 July 2019). "The next Prime Minister should scrap the Office for Tackling Injustices". ConservativeHome . Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  7. ↑ Mason, Rowena; Stewart, Heather (10 July 2019). "Social justice, not Brexit – Theresa May races to secure legacy". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  8. ↑ Savage, Michael (21 March 2020). "Theresa May's social injustice office 'doesn't exist – and never will'". The Guardian.


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