Individuals were uncertain about who they should turn to for support and employers were not being sufficiently monitored to ensure they were implementing equality legislation.
Kick It Out's chairman, Sir Herman Ouseley - who first set up a project to tackle football racism back in 1993 - says that Chelsea, Aston Villa, and Arsenal are three clubs who are providing an example for others when it comes to implementing equality in the industry.
"Previously, people who run big organisations might have been concerned that the EHRC could come and knock on their door and question them about their failure to implement equality legislation.
Most government departments and agencies have not trained all their staff to understand and implement equality law, despite this being a specific duty under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.
But to implement equality of opportunity, an orientation of the hearts and minds of members of society is needed, not merely legal enactments.
Since we can implement equality without eliminating luck, this shows that we can neither justify equality as a means of neutralizing luck, nor specify what equality requires as neutralizing luck.
First, insofar as they accept Wolff's factual observation, they may think that this points to a strong (welfarist) luck-egalitarian reason not to implement equality of opportunity: we can know in advance that collecting the relevant information is likely to make some of those who are already worse off through bad luck even worse off.
For many, this question will trigger a belief that even a society that perfectly implements equality of opportunity and in which superior positions always go to those who most merit them could not be a substitute for a more complete theory of justice that addresses the issue, what sorts of social hierarchy are morally acceptable.
"Hillary is a proven leader who will not only ensure that states are implementing marriage equality, but will work to end discrimination in our community whether it's by passing the Equality Act or through state measures".
At European level, most Western European countries have been at the international forefront in implementing legal equality and anti-discrimination laws for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT).
