Kate Green – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2016-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which organisations have provided diversity and equality training to judges since 1 January 2012.

Mr Shailesh Vara

Judicial training is a matter for the judiciary and is fulfilled by the Judicial College, which reports to the Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals. Some outside organisations have been invited to provide input, under judicial direction, into judicial training programmes and materials, including on specialist subjects. The Judicial College does not have a consolidated record of which organisations these are.

Under the Judicial College Strategy, training in social context issues is incorporated into all training programmes and diversity and equal treatment issues are woven into the case studies used in training. The strategy is publicly available https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/training-support/judicial-college/judicial-college-strategy-2015-2017/

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