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layers of inequality—a human rights and equality impact assessment of the public spending cuts on black asian and minority ethnic women in Coventry

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  1. We used the term BAME as this was the preferred term used by organisations and agencies working with minority ethnic people in Coventry. Although BAME women are not a homogenous group with the same identity, culture or religion, there are common, shared experiences of disadvantage, discrimination and racism, which means that examining the impact of the cuts on BAME women as a whole has value, cohesion and meaning. In addition, there is the practical consideration that many of the data sources and studies we used in writing this report include data on BME/BAME communities as a single group, without breaking down figures in more detail. Where figures are broken down and there are significant differences between communities, this was reflected in the report.

  2. Cited in Institute of Race Relations 'Poverty, Inequality, Employment and Health', http://www.irr.org.uk/research/statistics/poverty/, last accessed 2 December 2014.

  3. The full Act is available at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents.

  4. Nomis—Official Labour Market Statistics, Job Seekers Allowance Claimants data for Coventry by ethnicity, age, gender and duration, February 2009 to February 2013, based on query run at http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/, last accessed 9 May 2013.

  5. The Work Programme is a government welfare-to-work programme introduced in 2011. The objective is to get the long-term unemployed into work with support from a range of public sector, private sector and third sector organisations.

  6. Department for Work and Pensions, Work Programme: Local Authority cumulative figures. Referrals (Thousands): Local Authority by Ethnicity summary by Gender, available online at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=wp using a search for ‘Coventry’. Search page: http://83.244.183.180/WorkProg/wp_la_jo/ethnic_sum/ccsex/cclanum/a_cnjo_r_ethnic_sum_c_ccsex_p_cclanum_coventry_jul12.html, last accessed 1 June 2013.

  7. CHRP, Reports on the Impact of Public Spending Cuts on Different Disadvantaged Groups within the United Kingdom. Online database available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/chrp/projects/spendingcuts/resources/database/reportsgroups, last accessed 12 August 2014.

  8. Department of Communities and Local Government website, ‘Armchair auditors are here to stay’, 8 July 2011, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/armchair-auditors-are-here-to-stay, last accessed 22 May 2014.

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Sandhu, K., Stephenson, MA. layers of inequality—a human rights and equality impact assessment of the public spending cuts on black asian and minority ethnic women in Coventry. Fem Rev 109, 169–179 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2014.41

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