Stroud District Council is firmly committed to providing and promoting equality for all its employees and the wider community.
Our Equalities Scheme should ensure equality influences the way we provide services and the way we employ and develop staff. The Scheme also fulfils the statutory obligations placed on us by the Race Relations (Amendments) Act 2000.
We aim to ensure that no one is unfairly discriminated against on grounds of age, disability, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, gender, religion, belief or sexual orientation. We will work with our partners in the private, public and community sectors to achieve our equality objectives.
The Disability Equality Duty for the Public Sector
What is it?
From December 2006 The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 will be amended to place a duty on all public bodies to promote disability equality. This will affect all public bodies - from local councils to government departments, from universities to hospitals.
The Disability Equality Duty will require Stroud District Council to actively promote disability equality, and is similar to the duty to promote race equality under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act.
Stroud District Council welcomes this positive duty, which builds in disability equality at the beginning of the process, rather than make adjustments at the end. It will bring about a shift from a legal framework which relies on individual disabled people complaining about discrimination to one in which the public sector becomes a proactive agent of change.
Useful Documents
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Equalities Scheme - 07/02/2006 : 214Kb
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Gender Equality Scheme - 30/04/2007 : 108Kb
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Disability Equality Scheme - 04/12/2006 : 116Kb
