 The Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee is changing. The committee has always existed to ensure legislation sufficiently ensures equality, especially for people with protected characteristics such as gender, race and age. Now its remit will include scrutiny of wider human rights in Scotland. So Equalities and Human Rights Committee will be the new name and its new remit will be to basically plug in all the aspects of the fundamentals of the Human Rights Act and Human Rights in its essence essentially, which means when you apply that to equalities it gives you that fair balance of where the committee should go, the policies it should look at, the things it should monitor and audit and the things where we should press the government in ensuring that we live in a Scotland that has that equality. Equality agenda that is backed up by the Human Rights Act. The committee is now known as the Equalities and Human Rights Committee or ERIC for short and can be contacted by telephone, email, post and through social media.