Issue - meetings

Report of Chief Executive and Corporate Strategy and Performance Manager

Summary

To provide an overview of achievements relating to our equalities work in 2009/2010 and outline the work programme for 2010/2011.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended to:

(1)               Agree the Corporate Equality Action Plan for 2009-2012 (Annex C)

(2)               Agree the proposals to seek equality accreditation from the Improvement and Department Agency (IDeA) in November 2010.

(3)               Agree the refreshed equalities scheme and the three year equality impact assessment programme (Annexes A and B)

(4)               Note the equality achievements made during 2009/2010.

Agreed

The Chief Executive and Corporate Strategy and Performance Manager submitted a report which provided an overview of the achievements relating to the Council’s equalities work in 2009/10 and outlined the work programme for 2010/11.

Resolved

1)                 That the Corporate Equality Action Plan for 2009-2012 is agreed

2)                 That the proposals to seek equality accreditation from the Improvement and Department Agency (IDeA) in November 2010 are agreed

3)                 That the refreshed equalities scheme and the three year equality impact assessment programme is agreed

4)                  That the equality achievements made during 2009/2010 are noted.

Reason - This report provides and overview of our equalities performance and our work programme for the future. It considers the impact of the new Equality Framework for Local Government and, as requested by Executive in April 2009, it proposes a timeframe for the inspection. This report also provides and overview of new equalities duties that are coming into effect and how Cherwell District Council is responding to these duties and reflecting them in our long term objectives.