Issue details

Purpose of Report: To provide a progress report on the Council's Fairness and Equalities agenda.

The Cabinet Member is asked to:
- Note the areas of achievement identified through implementation of our Equality Objectives, Equalities Improvement action plan and York's Equality Scheme.
- Note the emerging issues from the first stage review of York's Equality Scheme which will be incorporated in the refresh of the Equality Scheme.
- Note the areas of concern and how these concerns are to be addressed in relation to communications, analysis and disaggregation of equality data, training and procurement.
- Note the changes to the governance arrangements.
- Agree that the peer review of the Equality Framework for Local Government takes place week commencing 19 May 2014.

This decision will be taken at a public meeting on 21 November 2013.

This report will now be considered by the Cabinet Member at a public Decision Session on 2 December 2013 to enable time to gather all the necessary updates.

This decision will now be taken at a public decision session on 16 December as officers require further time to gather the necessary updates required for the report.