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Our Commitment to Equality
Policies on Equality
We are committed to:
- Eliminating discrimination and harassment
- Promoting equality of opportunity
- Promoting good relations and positive attitudes towards all people
- Encouraging participation in public life.
Our commitment covers equality on grounds of: age, disability, gender (including Trans-gender), race, religion/belief and sexual orientation.
We expect our staff and elected members to put in place our commitment and organisational values by:
- Ensuring acceptable behaviour
- Responding to complaints and incidents in a positive and pro-active way
- Providing access to services, facilities and information
- Recruiting and employing people fairly and
- Meeting specific needs
Equality Policy 2008 (441KB - pdf help)