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In 50 years time a PhD student writing about the decline of state capacity will use as a case study the inability of the state to collect every 10 years accurate data on fundamental demographic indicators. One of the causes they'll point to is the outsourcing of thinking about >>
compliance with equalities legislation to "outside actors" whose business model is to sell legitimacy by establishing patron-client relationships that serve as a conduit for their own highly selective interpretation of public sector equality duties. Small step by small step
a dependency relationship is established and the costs of breaking it are reputational damage. With blanket buy-in nobody wants to be the first mover to break ranks. If everyone is inside the whale it looks cold outside & you might have to think for yourself & defend yourself. >>
That seems like a distraction from core business. But actually your core business has already been undermined & compromised. There are strange echoes of Daniel Bell's argument in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.
