The County Council has adopted the Equality Standard for Local Government. This is a comprehensive tool which will help us to assess the progress we are making towards equality of treatment in the way we plan and deliver services, and in the way in which we recruit, promote, develop and treat our staff.
The Equality Standard focuses on race, gender, disability, faith, sexuality and age issues, but is flexible enough to incorporate other developments in equality legislation as they arise, such as the requirement to produce Disability Equality and Gender Equality Schemes.
The Equality Standard has 5 levels, and currently the County Council has reached Level 2. As part of the process of progressing through each Level, we have developed a Single Equality Scheme and is aiming to achieve Level 3 by March 2009 (available on our 'WCC Strategies and Policies' page ), and we are conducting a series of equality impact assessments on all our key policies and services to ensure that we are not discriminating unfairly in any aspect of employment or service provision.
If you require further information about the Equality Standard framework or the equality impact assessment process, please contact the Corporate Equalities team:
Here is a summary of the Equality Standard
corporateequalities@warwickshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01926 410410
Minicom Number: 01926 412277 |