Vision and aims

Our vision for the Strategy is to:

‘Challenge, inspire, support, champion, share knowledge and experience to ensure equality for anyone accessing our services including our own staff.’

We recognise that as an Authority we have a substantial amount of work to do to meet our statutory obligations and we will go beyond the minimum requirements. We want consideration of diversity and equality issues to become a way of life in the organisation.

Through developing and implementing the Strategy we aim to:

• Achieve a better understanding of what the public want and need from the way we deliver our services
• Improve customer satisfaction with fewer complaints about diversity and equality issues
• Improve our recruitment processes to ensure opportunities are available to all
• Ensure flexible working is available to as many staff as possible
• Ensure equal pay for jobs of equal value
• Maximise the development and use of the talents of our staff.