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Protected Characteristics

The following attributes about an individual or group that is protected under the UK Equality Act 2010, including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, pragnancy and materinity. Characteristics that are protected from discrimination by law, including sex, gender, ethnicity, and race.

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2010

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