[PDF] Top 20 Southwark Race Equality Scheme 2002-2005

... We have made considerable progress in meeting these objectives, through improvements to mainstream services and initiatives led by the Stephen Lawrence Strategic Advisory Group which co-ordinates Southwark’s response to ... See full document

... The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places a specific duty on the Council to produce a Race Equality ...its Race Equality Scheme in April 2002 setting out arrangements ... See full document

... of race equality issues guidance will be given to service managers that, where possible, the race equality implications of policies should be built into planned service reviews (for example ... See full document

... Our Race Equality Scheme highlights the Council’s commitment to the duty to promote race equality, and is our response to the Equality Standard for Local Government (a Government ... See full document

... 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 employment ...Racial Equality (CRE) to ... See full document

... racial equality into the mainstream of local government, providing a tool with which to identify achievement and plan for improvement in local authority services in relation to service delivery and employment ... See full document

... Between 2002 to 2004 race and diversity issues were monitored as part of the course review process, with guidance being developed in 2003 to assist trainers to thread diversity throughout their course ... See full document

... 14.5 In terms of employment, the Council is in a better position to be able to set realistic targets. By 1 July 2002 the Council will have undertaken a monitoring exercise on all its employees. From looking at the ... See full document

... first Race Equality Scheme will be published in full in July 2002, this will be after Cabinet has approved the Scheme during their June ...detailed Race Equality ... See full document

... The phrase data rich but information poor sums up many public authorities. If Merton Council is to break this mould, then it is vital that all staff understand why we monitor and the link between equality issues ... See full document

... School Meals: The service carried out a consultation exercise in the Summer Term of 2002 with schools and parents which enabled them to draw up a tender specification for the new service from September 2003. The ... See full document

... The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 places on public authorities a general duty to promote race equality both through the provision of services and as an ...make race equality a ... See full document

... The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 was one of the responses of the Government to the 70 recommendations of the inquiry report and marked the turning point in the development of Race Relations in modern ... See full document

... The initial assessments assisted us to identify the relevance of our functions and policies to the three general duties of the Act, i.e. combating discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity, and promoting ... See full document

... The department has approximately 320 members of staff operating in 11 Business Units. Five units provide support functions for the remaining 6 Business Units who provide services in areas such as: Building Control, ... See full document

... The Race Equality Scheme is a strategy and action plan that uses existing systems and procedures and ensures race equality targets and performance indicators will be an explicit part of ... See full document

... The demographic profile of Croydon shows a substantial and growing proportion of the population who are of mixed race. Many of our minority ethnic and black communities are third or fourth generation brought up ... See full document

... All application forms for employment with the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames contain a monitoring section. However, at present, following decentralisation of the recruitment function, application monitoring is ... See full document

... of equality impact assessment (EIA) is key to understanding the scope of future need and is part of good procurement ...to equality and diversity at an early stage, and it will also help them to understand ... See full document

... discrimination. Rather it refers to social and political structures, which privilege those categorised as white, and disadvantage those categorised as BME i (Gillborn 2005; Preston 2007). In an education context, ... See full document