Equal Opportunities Policy

STATEMENT OF INTENT

Gedling Borough Council seeks to create a culture of employment and direct or indirect service delivery through its Members, Managers and other employees, in which people can feel confident of being treated with fairness, dignity and tolerance irrespective of their personal circumstances, background or lifestyle.  Discrimination consists of conduct or words or practices that disadvantage or advantage people; we will not intentionally discriminate on grounds of disability, race, colour, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, gender, marital status, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, unrelated criminal conviction, age or trade union membership.  

STRATEGIC AIMS

Gedling Borough Council aims to:

• Ensure the best possible equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and service delivery.
• Be responsive to needs of the Community and recognise that these needs will be diverse.
• Work within the law in respect of equal opportunity issues and have regard for “best practice” working methods.
• Consult with the Community as widely as possible to produce tangible results in terms of equality of service delivery.
• Work towards providing a model of good equal opportunities practices for other organisations and service providers in the Borough and to encourage a commitment to equal opportunities in the Community at large.
• Through policies and service delivery, to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to promote and foster good relations between people of different racial groups and to promote race equality.

Read the Equal Opportunity Policy in full (pdf 26kb)
Download the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form (pdf 20kb)