Racial Discrimination and Hate Harassment in Housing

Course contains:

• What is racial discrimination?
• What are protected personal characteristics?
• How to identify and clarify unlawful racial discrimination and hate harassment in housing
• An overview of relevant anti-discrimination legislation including the Equalities Act
• Strategies for dealing with racial discrimination and harassment in a social and private sector housing context, using remedies and strategies to provide short and long-term responses
• Using the new legal remedies for antisocial behaviour in an effective way
• Understanding how to build a case that can succeed
• The use and tactics of the Protection from Harassment Act
• Building a working relationship with the Police and community

Suitable for:

Housing officers, managers and advisers in the social and private housing sector.