[PDF] Top 20 Equality objectives and the equality duty: A guide for public authorities

... setting objectives can encourage an outcome-focused approach to setting challenging but measurable targets to improve service outcomes and the way you employ your ...major equality issues. Working to ... See full document

... This guide is a practical explanation of what can be done to ensure authorities are meeting the equality ...the public sector equality duty, which can be used as evidence in ... See full document

... Public authorities already collect and hold a vast array of information, so it is likely that you already have some relevant information on equality in service provision, such as attainment levels or ... See full document

... to equality, scoping gives you an opportunity to establish basic systems that will be helpful for your equality ...to equality and which aspects have particular importance to ...general ... See full document

... in public authorities by promoting transparency and be a mechanism by which public authorities can be held to account by services ...example, public bodies who listen to the expertise ... See full document

... successive equality duty. In the Race Equality Duty the specific duties included an ‘expectation’ that groups affected by their policies and their provisions to meet the duty will be ... See full document

... gender equality objectives, and setting out the actions it intends to carry out to achieve them, each public authority will have to develop an understanding of the major gender equality issues ... See full document

... expect public authorities across all sectors to take to address the four priority issues for gender equality we have identified, based on our research and evidence and data from other ...that ... See full document

... 3.99 Authorities will need to consider the full range of services which they provide and those functions they ...disability equality in its budget allocation. 3.100 Many public authorities ... See full document

... introduce equality legislation based on positive ...The duty to consult was particularly important in the public sector equality duties, which were broadened to include public service ... See full document

... way public authorities work. The new duty now adds the need for ...main public services, many authorities have already reviewed their policies and procedures and have begun the ... See full document

... general duty is to make racial equality a central part of the way public authorities work, by putting it at the centre of policy making, service delivery, regulation and enforcement, and ... See full document

... the Equality Act 2010 (applicable in England and Wales and in Scotland) imposes broad obligations on all public purchasers to promote equality (gender equality, racial equality etc) in ... See full document

... for authorities with more than 150 full-time staff, monitoring the number of staff who receive training, who benefit or suffer from performance appraisals, who are involved in grievances or disciplinary action, ... See full document

... One of the legal requirements underlining the DED and set out by the DRC in their code of practice (DRC, 2005) was to involve disabled people in the production of DES. The level of involvement underlines the focus on ... See full document

... single equality duty argued that it would promote mainstreaming, making equality central to a range of public policy debates and reducing the risk that the issue would become side-lined ... See full document

... We are carrying out a survey to find out how police forces, CDRPs and local authorities in the North East are currently working in partnership to tackle hate incidents. We need you to help us build up an accurate ... See full document

... disability equality was assuming greater priority within many ...disability equality issues within organisations and identifies the following factors as critical to success: high level leadership, the ... See full document

... g) Service Delivery: Our professional strategy will outline how to meet the needs of children and families referred to us in the most effective and efficient way. This will be in line with the Government agenda in Every ... See full document

... the duty to consult is to amount to something more than strategic action, that is, if it is to provide a wider sense of legal legitimacy, one that can genuinely contribute to ameliorating the long-damaged, ... See full document