1. Amend the Equality Act 2010 to ensure that all those working in the music sector are protected, including freelancers and those who suffer discrimination while depping.

2. Reintroduce rights around third-party harassment to protect those who experience discrimination from audience members, clients or customers at work.

3. Reintroduce the use of discrimination questionnaires to make it easier to challenge potentially discriminatory behaviour at work.

4. Extend the time limit for bringing discrimination cases from three months to six months.

5. Implement the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee’s report into Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (these include: a mandatory duty on employers to protect workers from harassment and victimisation in the workplace,4 a statutory code of practice on sexual harassment and harassment at work, and better data collection on the prevalence of sexual harassment at work).

6. Properly fund the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and support its work.

7. Membership organisations to promote a members’ code of practice and include provisions within their governance structures to tackle discriminatory behaviours including removal of offending members.

8. Established organisations such as orchestras, studios, venues and labels to lead the sector by example through adopting guidance on sexual harassment and other types of discrimination from other sectors, such as the guidance from UK Hospitality and the EHRC, and supplying all workers (freelance or employed) with a code of conduct that clearly defines all types of discriminatory behaviour that is unacceptable in a professional workplace.

9. Funding bodies to require that all supported organisations commit to regular and specific training on discrimination and harassment alongside providing written procedures on how complaints will be upheld, and to protect individuals engaged on funded projects on a freelance basis by providing a mechanism to raise complaints of discrimination, harassment and inappropriate behaviour to the funding body anonymously.

10. All organisations to understand their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 through undertaking training on the subjects of sexual harassment, inappropriate behaviour and discrimination.