JISC Legal : News

A website designed to allow people to help to make the internet more accessible has been launched.

The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 are now in force and require that Equality Duty compliance information must be published by the end of January 2012.

ACAS guide offers practical tips on the impact of social networking on discipline and grievances, bullying, defamation, data protection and privacy.

The Scottish Government is consulting on changes to the draft regulations relating to the public sector equality duty.

Following on from our earlier post on the Cookie Directive, the amended rules on cookies are now in force in the UK.

The general Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010 comes into force this week (5/04/2011) and places three broad requirements on the public sector including colleges and universities.

The Draft Equality Act (Statutory Duties) Regulations 2011 for England have been withdrawn by the government for further review.

We have issued two new guidance papers on OERs: Strategic Managment of IPR for OER in UK HE and Legal Aspects of the Use of Child Images in OERs.

Accessibility is an ongoing issue for the use of ICT in FE and HE and JISC Techdis has launched two funding competitions for innovative approaches to assistive technologies.

Those of you concerned with accessibility issues in the use of technology will be interested to visit the new website of our sister organisation, JISC Techdis.

The Cloud Industry Forum has launched a Code of Practice for cloud service providers.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published (12 Jan 2011) its latest guidance for public authorities on the new public sector equality duty which comes into force on 6 April 2011.

The code of practice aims to assist those in an organisation with responsibility for web products and for promoting and supporting equality and inclusion in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

WIPO has agreed on a work programme that could lead to an international treaty involving mandatory exceptions for the benefit of users of copyright works. 

These Top Ten Tips were created to celebrate JISC Legal's 10th anniversary, all the while looking forward to the challenges UK FE and HE will face in the next ten years.

JISC Techdis has just released a guidance document on complying with equality duty in which JISC Legal has contributed guidance on the Equality Act 2010.

Authoritative statutory guidance published on equal pay, employment, and services, public functions and associations. 

The Act includes new measures for discrimination, harassment, recruitment and pay.