THE ROYAL PARKS faces a landmark legal challenge after being accused of indirect race discrimination against black and minority-ethnic outsourced cleaners, their union United Voices of the World (UVW) said yesterday.

Set up by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), the charity is tasked with the administration of eight London parks. 

The challenge will contend that while outsourced cleaners, who are overwhelmingly black African migrants, are on minimum terms and conditions, the 90 per cent white in-house staff are given generous conditions and benefits, amounting to indirect racial discrimination under the Equalities Act.