Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act. Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it. Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it. The protected characteristics are age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership (only in respect of eliminating unlawful discrimination); pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex (gender); sexual orientation. Craven is a very rural district and people living outside the larger towns can find it difficult to access services. We will treat people fairly wherever they live and make sure they get the services they need. are other factors which affect people’s lives. Examples of these are income, education and occupation. We will work to deliver the best possible outcomes for all our communities and citizens. We aim to equalities thinking into everything that we do. This means that we are able to draw the majority of our equality objectives from equality information that is gathered by service areas through equality analysis, monitoring and consultation. This helps to ensure that our service planning is based on analysis of information and data about the needs of our residents. This helps us to make sure that we use our resources to deliver services that people need and want the most. The new requirements to publish equality information and to set and publish equality objectives do not ask us to use a set format to do these things. Government guidance is that we are no longer required to produce a single equality scheme and our publication of the Council’s equality objectives should provide people with a good understanding of the actions which we are undertaking to improve life for people with protected characteristics. This action plan will be regularly updated to ensure it is outcome focused and embedded into everything that we do at Craven District Council. This will allow for actions from equality analysis and monitoring to be regularly fed into the action plan and also local issues allowing our approach to equalities to be focused on local community based information. Our objectives will be reviewed every four years. Equality actions will be fed into service plans and monitored through our usual reporting systems. Our 2012-2016 equality objectives were published on our website as part of The Craven District Council Single Equality Scheme on the 6 2012 informed by: Equalities Act 2010.
A – Ensure we equalities in the way we provide services Deliver equality and diversity training to members Annually Yearly refresher training delivered to members at member training event Members understand the importance of equality and diversity in relation to service delivery and their public role and the Councils practices. Member training event held Dem services Deliver equality and diversity training to Annually All new staff to receive equalities training as part of induction. Yearly refresher training delivered to Staff understand the importance of equality and diversity in relation to service delivery and the workplace. Staff training session delivered HR Review EIA process as appropriate and use findings to inform EIA training refresher and EIA process & guidance. 2016 1)Undertake historic review of completed EIAs 2) Revise EIA template, guidance, training & wording in Committee report template. 3) Produce EIA report for CLT Improved quality of EIA’s informed by consultation and data collection leading to service improvements to address equality and diversity needs. CLT Report produced Revised EIA guidance produced Committee report template wording revised Communications & Partnerships All managers and other appropriate staff to undertake annual Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) refresher training September 2016 All managers and appropriate staff have received EIA training Improved quality of EIA’s informed by consultation and data collection leading to service improvements to address equality and diversity needs. EIA refresher training session held 27 managers undertaking training All Servicers Communications & Partnerships and HR Monitor the annual number of Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) carried out and report findings to CLT. Annually Annual EIA monitoring report produced for CLT CLT report findings noted and used to improve services. CLT report produced CLT Communications & Partnerships Objective 2 : Advance equality of opportunity and make sure our services are accessible to all Objective Action Reference & Name Timescale Key Milestones Key Outcomes Success Criteria By Who?