The Equality Scheme 2009-12 brings together revised Race, Disability and Gender Equality Schemes and also incorporates actions to address equality issues in respect of age, sexual orientation, religion and belief and gender identity.
This Equality Scheme builds on the achievements of our first Equality Scheme and contains actions that reflect the full range of service delivery and employment practice across the council. We have involved Disabled People in putting this Equality Scheme together and consulted with a range of organisations and individuals to help us identify priority objectives where we can most improve equality outcomes and drive change. The identified priority objectives to focus on are:-
actions to eliminate discrimination, hate crime and harassment being experienced on any grounds eg. race, gender, impairment, homophobia etc.
actions to tackle long-standing issues of inequality and disadvantage experienced in education, employment, health, housing etc.
actions to promote greater equality and increase participation in communities and cross communities.
Southampton City Council
