Introduction

At the moment CoSO is concentrating on consulting and working with Public Authorities on the drafting of the Equality Schemes required by the Section 75 Equality Duty.  The draft schemes are coming in at a fast rate and CoSO needs all the help it can get from members of the LBGT community to make sure that we respond as fully as possible.  

CoSO has now completed its initial response to the draft equality schemes as prepared by various public authorities.  Take a look for yourself Response to the Draft Equality Schemes

Please contact CoSO at the Rainbow Project and take a look at some draft Equality Schemes before you arrive so you'll have some idea of the ground we need to cover.  Also read the Equality Scheme Guidelines that have been produced by the Equality Commission.  Call the Equality Commission on Belfast 028 9050 0600 and request a copy of the guidelines.  Read our response to the draft guidelines Equality Commission and the Commentary that helps explain the response.  You can also see how our first meeting with the Equality commissioners went back in October 1999 Report on Meeting with Equality Commissioners.

If you want to know more about the work we are doing with the Human Rights Commission take a look at Human Rights Commission and take a look at our response to the HRC draft Strategic Plan Response to the Human Rights Commission draft Strategic Plan. 

If you want to know more about how we have set ourselves up then take a look at our Statement of Objectives and our Constitution.

Find out about what we're doing at the moment What are we working on at the moment and how you can help.  You can see how we're trying to develop LBGT trainng for the public authorities Training. You can also see what we've been dong up until now What's happened so far.

So get in touch as soon as possible - we need to hear from you Contact Us.