Stroud District Council is firmly committed to providing and promoting equality for all its employees and the wider community.
Our Corporate Equalities Scheme should ensure equality influences the way we provide services and the way we employ and develop staff. The scheme fulfils the Council’s statutory obligations under the Race Relations (Amendments) Act 2000. To comply with subsequent disability and gender legislation the Council has also published a Disability Equality Scheme and Gender Equality Scheme. All our schemes will be under review to ensure that they are compliant with the new Equality Framework for Local Government and the forthcoming Equality Bill.
We aim to ensure that no one living, working or visiting the district 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.
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Equalities Scheme (Race) (PDF 211KB) - 07/02/2006
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Gender Equality Scheme (PDF 102KB) - 30/04/2007
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Disability Equality Scheme (PDF 113KB) - 04/12/2006
This framework is designed to ensure that local authorities consider equality issues at all levels of council policy and practice. It acts as a framework to help local authorities introduce a comprehensive and systematic approach to dealing with equality issues and enables them to meet their obligations.
These are required for each service area as well as for key policies, strategies and services. The purpose of these impact assessments is to ensure that our activities do not disadvantage a particular section of the community in any way. They can also identify any adverse impacts or missed opportunities and encourage change in order to create a positive impact.
