Our duty and workforce equality data
Public Sector Duty
From April 2011 the Public Sector Equality Duty requires us, as a public body, to consciously consider the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between different people when carrying out our activities.
We have a duty to consider all individuals when carrying out our day-to-day work. This includes in shaping policy, in delivering services and in relation to our own employees.
Workforce equality data
Following the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duty, we publish equality information for our workforce. The following reports illustrate our progress and show how our workforce diversity has changed. All data reported is based on figures excluding schools.
Workforce equality data reports
Planning around the Public Sector Duty
We have started to incorporate an assessment of how we comply with the equality and diversity duty into our business planning process.
We have used the Local Government Association Equality Framework for Local Government (EFLG) to develop a self-assessment approach linked into the formulation and adoption of our Corporate Plan and our associated Directorate and Service Plans. We will publish our self assessment template here in due course.