Equality and Diversity Strategy
Vison and aims
The Authority’s 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 a new Authority we have a substantial amount of work to do to meet our statutory obligations and we will go beyond the minimum requirements. Our ambition is to achieve the highest level of the Equality Standard for Local Government. We want consideration of diversity and equality issues to become a way of life in the organisation.
Through developing and implementing the Strategy the Authority aims 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.
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