Issue - meetings
Single Corporate Equality Scheme
Meeting: 11/01/2011 - Decision Session - Executive Member for Leisure Culture and Social Inclusion (Item 24)
24 Fairness and Inclusion Update 
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The purpose of this report is to update the Executive Member about progress with fairness and inclusion matters in the council.
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED: (i) That the report and progress made with fairness and inclusion matters in the Council be noted.
(ii) That the Executive Member meet with Directorate Heads in order to formalise how to track progress with equalities issues in the Council.1
REASON: To keep the Executive Member informed of progress on these matters.
Minutes:
The Executive Member considered a report that updated him on progress made with fairness and inclusion matters in the Council.
Officers updated the Executive Member and noted the concerns raised by Councillor Crisp relating to equalities and accessibility issues. They added that a further assessment relating to monitoring corporate customer and staff equality profiling was currently being prepared.
The Executive Member expressed how he was pleased to note the current progress that had been made in meeting equality operational standards, in particular for the Equality Framework for Local Government (EFLG), and that there had been external recognition accorded to the Council for this.
In addition he commented that the Fairness and Inclusion Strategy needed to be reviewed in future in order to reach the standard for the Single Equality Act. He felt that there was a need to explore how monitoring on equalities in Council Directorates was presented to Members. He also commented on how the report was due to be considered by both the Effective Organisation Scrutiny Committee and the Audit and Governance Committee, and that it could be beneficial to have responses to the report from these meetings in a future update.
RESOLVED: (i) That the report and progress made with fairness and inclusion matters in the Council be noted.
(ii) That the Executive Member meet with Directorate Heads in order to formalise how to track progress with equalities issues in the Council.1
REASON: To keep the Executive Member informed of progress on these matters.