Equality and Access to services
We are committed to ensuring equality in everything that we do
both through our service provision and through our responsibilities
as an employer. We recognise that while everyone is different, they
have the right to be treated with an equal level of respect and
have equal access to our services and facilities.
These pages give an overview of our work to support
Equality.
The Equality Act 2010
The Equality Act 2010 brought in new requirements and duties for
public bodies. At DDC we are working with the community
and our partners to develop objectives which are both
meaningful and relevant to our District and we will be
publishing details of these by the end of March 2012.
- Equality Report January 2012 -
Information about the work we are doing with people who share
characteristics protected by the Equality Act.
- Our Equality policy has been sent to Cabinet for approval and
will be published here soon.
Equality Objectives
We are working with partners, our services,
staff groups and union representatives to develop ideas for
corporate equality objectives. Suggestions being discussed
are:-
- Developing a clearer understanding of the
ageing population and joining our services with other agencies to
support them better.
- Maintaining our position as one of Kent’s top
5 safest communities
- Supporting community forums
- Supporting integration through partnership
working
- Staff awareness of the Equality Duty and
their responsibilities
- Apprenticeships to support people into
employment.
- Developing through partnership working, a
disabled / elderly person transport scheme
Objectives will go to Cabinet for
approval on April 16th and will be published here following
their approval.
Equality work in previous years
Prior to the Equality Act 2010 we had an Equality Schemes and
action plans:
The Equality scheme and action plan showed how
we planned to work with and provide
services for the diverse communities our
district.
Equality scheme and
action plan for 2009-2012 - pdf, 130kb
Equality scheme
and action plan for 2009-2012 - Word,
210kb
We reviewed the Equality Scheme action plan at the end of its
first year, 2009-2010, and the results can be found in this
report
Equality
Scheme Actions 2009-2010 - pdf, 125kb
Equality
Scheme Actions 2009-2010 - Word, 148kb
The outcomes from our first scheme can be found here:
Equality
scheme for 2006-9 - pdf, 160kb
Equality
scheme for 2006-9 - Word, 298kb
Equality Impact Assessments
We refer to these assessments as Customer Access Reviews (or
C.A.R.s internally) and we conducted these on all of our services
from 2006. These reviews can be found on the Customer Access Review
section at the side of this page.
Contact
E-mail: equalities@dover.gov.uk
Telephone: 01304 872317
- For information on the many support and special interest groups
in the district (or to add details of your organisation) please see
our Community
Directory
