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The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act was implemented on 1st April, 2024 attracting widespread media and public attention. Join us for this one-hour briefing to untangle what it means for your organisation; what underpins it; what are the challenges and controversies surrounding its implementation and how to move forward.


The session will be led by Kusminder Chahal, HDN Associate, Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University and trainer for Stop Hate UK.


This session is primarily for Scottish member organisations.

Speakers

  • Kusminder Chahal (Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, Trainer for Stop Hate UK, HDN Associate Consultant)

    Kusminder Chahal

    Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, Trainer for Stop Hate UK, HDN Associate Consultant

    Kusminder has extensive experience as a researcher, trainer, and practitioner in a range of areas including community engagement, hate crime and equality, diversity, and inclusion. He has trained over 7000 participants at all levels of an organisation across the public, private and voluntary sector. Kusminder has worked directly with hate crime victims and published practiced based resources including Supporting victims of hate crime. Kusminder has undertaken projects on hate crime in the USA, Europe, and Japan.

    Kusminder’s recent commissions have included writing a guidance manual for racial harassment / hate crime officers, researching the extent and level of non-reporting of racist harassment, facilitating senior managers learning on equality and diversity, researching, and writing an equality and diversity policy, facilitating staff groups on their experiences of equality and diversity.

    Kusminder’s published work includes “We can’t all be white!” Racist Victimisation in the UK (1999, funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation), co-authored Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Strategies: A Good Practice Guide (2000, Chartered Institute of Housing) and more recently Racist Harassment and Housing Services (2007, Race Equality Foundation).”

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