Policies and equality schemes

Key equality policies

Our Corporate Equality Plan (CEP) provides a framework that sets out how we will promote our diversity and equality priorities. The Plan specifies what we will be doing to ensure we are an employer offering equality of opportunity to our employees and a provider of accessible services for all our residents. In effect, this Corporate Equality Plan is designed to ensure we act on the commitments set out in our Equalities Policy. The CEP also builds on, and complements, the commitments made in our Race, Disability and Gender equality schemes (the latter from April 2007) alongside our directorate equality action plans.

Appendices

  • Appendix A - reference information regarding race, disability and gender equality schemes.
  • Appendix B - The Equality Standard for Local Government
  • Appendix C - Corporate Equality Plan/Stakeholder Consultation Action Plan
  • Appendix D - Equalities Policy - summary
  • Appendix E - Self Assessment framework
  • Appendix F - Policy Clearing House
  • Appendix G - Guidance on Equality Impact Assessment

Gender Equality Scheme

This Scheme, published 30 April 2007, explains how we will respond to the requirements of the new Gender Equality Duty.

Appendices

  • Appendix A (Word, 235Kb) - Gender equality action plan
  • Appendix B (Word, 513Kb) - Executive summary of the Scheme
  • Appendix C (PDF, 90Kb) - A Fairer Suffolk - leaflet
  • Appendix D (Word, 111Kb) - Executive Summary of our Comprehensive Equalities Policy

Disability Equality Scheme

The Scheme explains how we will respond to the requirements of the new Disability Equality Duty.

Appendices

Race Equality Scheme

Our Race Equality Scheme (RES) is our strategy and action plan which sets out how we intend to fulfil our public duty, under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 to promote race equality. It is part of our Corporate Equality Plan 2005 to 2008, but must also be a free-standing document in its own right.  Suffolk County Council has produced it's 2008 -2011 Race Equality Scheme which can be found here in draft format along with a new action plan.


Appendices

  • Appendix A - Summary of Race Equality Scheme 2002 to 2005 and 2004 Review
  • Appendix B - Suffolk population by ethnicity and faith
  • Appendix C - Action Plan
  • Appendix D - Beacon bid for Promoting Racial Equality 2004-05
  • Appendix E - Corporate employment ethnicity monitoring data May 2004
  • Appendix F - Corporate employment ethnicity monitoring data - May 2005
  • Appendix G - Racist Incidents in Suffolk Schools 2003 - 2004
  • Appendix H - Racist Incidents in Suffolk Schools 2002 - 2003
  • Appendix I - Suffolk schools staff survey - June 2005
  • Appendix J - Survey of Suffolk school governors July 2005
  • Appendix K - Suffolk schools pupil survey - March 2005

Contact us

If you would like to comment on our Corporate Equality Plan and these schemes, please email Shammi Jalota: shammi.jalota@cexec.suffolkcc.gov.uk