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Decision Maker: Executive Councillor for Strategy and Transformation
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
To approve the draft Single Equality Scheme for public consultation.
Matter
for Decision: The City Council has
developed a draft Single Equality Scheme that sets out how the organisation will challenge discrimination and promote equal
opportunity in all aspects of its work over the next three years.
Decision of the Leader
The Leader resolved to:
i.
Approve
the draft Single Equality Scheme 2015-2018 for public consultation.
ii.
Approve
the objectives of the draft Single Equality Scheme, as set out at 3.11 of the
officer’s report, as the interim objectives for the City Council’s work on
equalities, pending the outcome of public consultation and approval of the
final scheme in July 2015.
Reasons for the
Decision: As set out in the officer’s report
Any alternative
options considered and rejected: As set out in the officer’s report
Scrutiny
Considerations:
The committee received a report from the Strategy and
Partnerships Manager.
The committee made the following comments on the report
i.
Thanked officer for a comprehensive and detailed
report.
In response to member’s questions the Strategy and
Partnerships Manager said the following:
i.
Confirmed that the terminology within the Single
Equality Scheme and the Equalities Act would be consistent in the final draft
of the City Council’s scheme.
ii.
The Single Equality Scheme of 2012-2015 set six
objectives. The five objectives proposed for 2015-2018 combined the objectives
relating to workforce and also placed more emphasis on ensuring equal access to
public activities and spaces in the City.
iii.
The five objectives identified build on the City
Council’s previous work and achievements on the equality agenda and were
identified by an analysis of how communities in Cambridge had changed over
recent years.
iv.
Whilst some areas were obviously cross-cutting the
aim was to keep the Single Equalities Scheme and the Anti-Poverty Strategy
separate. This would ensure that neither policy was ‘diluted’.
The Scrutiny Committee considered the recommendations and
endorsed them unanimously.
The Leader approved the recommendation.
Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Leader (and any Dispensations
Granted):
Not applicable.
Publication date: 13/07/2015
Date of decision: 15/01/2015