Equality and diversity
We know we serve a diverse borough and getting our services right for everyone is important. We ensure we do not discriminate in a way that is unfair, illegal or unjustified.
This means we tailor our services to ensure everyone can access them. We do this by listening and working with all sections of the community, including hard to reach groups to encourage greater participation in the decision making process. To help us do this, we ask for information on people's, disability, sex, age, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy/ maternity, marriage and civil partnership and sexual orientation. This helps us improve our services by targeting them at the right people.
Objectives
The Council is required under the Public Sector Equality Duty to publish its equality objectives, these were reviewed in 2020 and are:
- To use customer insight to develop accessible services particularly aimed at those demonstrating greatest need.
- To ensure all council strategies, policies and procedures consider the impact on our diverse community/ workforce to ensure maximum inclusion.
The scheme outlines how we will promote equality and diversity in the delivery of our services and to integrate the councils equality and diversity activities into our normal service delivery mechanisms.
The full scheme and supporting action plan can be found on the useful links section below.
Disability Confident Committed Employer
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
- ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- communicating and promoting vacancies
- offering an interview to disabled people
- anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
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