Venue: Virtual
Contact: Susie Blood
No. | Item | ||
---|---|---|---|
Corporate equality and inclusion policies - triennial refresh PDF 163 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The
Director of Legal and Governance services submitted a report to seek approval for the proposed revisions
to the Council’s four corporate equality and inclusion policies following their
scheduled triennial review in order to ensure continued compliance with the
Equality Act 2010. Consideration of policies
required to ensure compliance with the Equality Act 2010 was a duty reserved to
the Executive Member for Communities and Education within the Executive Scheme
of Delegation. The
report outlined that the Equality Act 2010 places a Public Sector Equality Duty
(PSED) on the Council and was supported by specific equality regulations that
the Council must also comply with. The
PSED requires that when taking decisions the Council must have due regard to
the need to:
Furthermore,
the Act states that compliance with this duty may involve:
1.
The PSED states consideration should also be given to the steps involved
in meeting the needs of disabled persons where they are different from the
needs of people who are not disabled including, in particular, steps to take account
of disabled persons’ disabilities. 2.
The protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010 are:
The
Act was supported by specific regulations, which place additional duties upon
the Council. It is required publish information to demonstrate compliance with
the PSED. The Council must also prepare and publish one or more specific and
measurable objective it thinks it should achieve to enable it to meet the
general PSED. The report
outlined that the Council has in place four corporate equality and inclusion policies to
ensure compliance with the PSED: 1. Equality and Inclusion Policy 2. Equality monitoring Policy 3. Impact Assessment Policy 4. Monitoring of Hate
Incidents Policy The report outlined
that these policies were approved
in November 2017 and are reviewed every three years, unless there are changes
to legislation in the intervening period that would require an earlier review.
The policies were reviewed in late 2020 and the review resulted in the proposal
of minor revisions to the existing policies:
|
|||
The decision will come into force after five working days following the day the decision was published unless the decision becomes subject to the call in procedures. |