Equality and diversity

An enabling framework for treating everyone fairly and valuing diversity - " Equal citizen - different need "

• Our commitment
• Legislation, policies and guidance
• Kirklees communities - knowing our patch
• Equality impact assessments
• Equality impact assessments - non budget related
• Services
• Contact

We see equality and diversity as part of everything we do. It is not a separate activity or just the responsibility of designated officers. Equally, we do not want equality and diversity to become buried amongst our activities, we want this work on equality and diversity to be visible.

We include all nine legally identified equality areas in the framework, as that makes sense in terms of practical delivery. At the same time, we will look for and assess progress across these separate areas.

• Age
• Disability
• Gender Reassignment
• Marriage and Civil Partnership
• Pregnancy and Maternity
• Race
• Religion and Belief
• Sexual Orientation
• Sex (formerly Gender)

Our commitment to you

1. We believe in treating everyone fairly and see the diversity of our community and workforce as a real strength.
2. We want to build strong communities with a sense of togetherness, and we want to tackle disadvantage.
3. We want everyone to be able to realise their potential and to benefit from the cultural, social, economic and civic vitality of our district.
4. We want to meet people’s needs as best we can.
5. We realise that treating people fairly does not necessarily mean treating everyone as if they are the same.

This commitment applies to our work as an employer, a service provider, a contractor of services, a funding body, and in our community leadership role.

• Council corporate priorities

Legislation, policies and guidance

• Equality and Diversity Strategy (PDF 443kb)
• Equality and Diversity Policy Statement (PDF 88kb)
• Our equality and diversity procurement policy - Procurement - overview (PDF)
• Equality Standards in Procurement (PDF)
• Social model of disability - overview (PDF)

Kirklees communities - knowing our patch

• Knowing our Patch (PDF 1.2Mb) - Equality data from the "Your Place Your Say" Survey 2011
• Your Place, Your Say Survey Results - Customer Contact (PDF 312kb)
• What we know from our consultations - Equality issues - prior learning (PDF 77kb)
• What we know about our patch - Kirklees Statistics Factsheets

Equality impact assessments

• The Index of equality impact assessments forms part of budget proposal considerations.

Equality impact assessments - non budget related

• Social Housing Reforms EIA Screeing Tool (Excel 78kb)
• Social Housing Reforms Stage 1 (PDF 56kb)
• Social Housing Reforms Stage 2 (PDF 114kb)
• Social Housing Reforms Stage 3 (PDF 219kb)

Services

• Civil partnership
• Kirklees Council - Building Services - Equal opportunities (external site)
• Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing: Equality and diversity
• Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders (PDF 47kb)
• Stonewall diversity champion (PDF)
• Community languages (translation and interpretation)

Contact