It reflects the advice of the
Equality and Human
Rights Commission and the The Equality Act which came into
force on 01 October 2010.
You can find out more about the new Equality Act 2010 by
watching an information
video produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
What is an Equality Scheme?
It replaces the three separate Race, Disability and Gender
Equality Schemes which were linked together by the overarching
Comprehensive Equality Policy.
Why have one?
The new
Equality Scheme (342k, pdf) brings
together the council's duties to tackle discrimination and
harrrassment and to promote equality and good relations in
everything we do.
It will bring together the council's plans for identifying and
tackling disadvantage not only in relation to race, disability and
gender, but also age, sexual orientation and religion or belief for
the first time.
What are we trying to achieve?
We want to change the traditional approach of seeing equality as
a number of separate strands and look at the characteristics of the
people who live and work in North Somerset. We want to think about
who works for the council too.
What we did
A draft Equality Scheme was approved for consultation b the
council's Executive in July 2009 following work led by the Equality
and Diversity Team. From 06 October until 31 December 2009 there
was a chance for comments to be made. We took these into account
and made some revisions and the completed Equality Scheme is now
available to download.
Update
The Equality Scheme is a working document which
is regularly updated. Please see the attached documents, below,
for the progress reports 2010/11:
-
Corporate (pdf, Mar 11, 115k)
-
Development and Environment (pdf, Mar 11,
pdf)
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Adult Social Services and Housing(pdf, Mar
11, 99k)
-
Corporate Services Unit(pdf, Mar 11,
57k)
-
Finance and Resources (pdf, Mar,
53k)
-
Children and Young People(pdf, Mar 11,
72k)
For more information contact our
Equality and
Diversity team.
