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Equality and Diversity Policy and Strategy

Tim Waldron - August 2007
tim.waldron@kirklees.gov.uk

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

Our commitment

We believe in treating everyone fairly and see the diversity of our community and workforce as a real strength. We want to build strong communities with a sense of togetherness, and we want to tackle disadvantage. We want everyone to be able to realise their potential and to benefit from the cultural, social, economic and civic vitality of our district. We want to meet people's needs as best we can, and 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 and a funding body, and in our community leadership role.

We have written the Equality and Diversity Strategy so that we can put our commitment to equality and diversity into practice. It strengthens our approach, by making equality and diversity central to what we do and how we behave. It builds on past achievements, while recognising and dealing with areas that need improving.

Strategic documents like this one must lead to practical benefits that can be seen by the wider community. To produce these benefits we must:

set priorities
have specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely targets
prioritise resources into achieving those targets
make real improvements
Tell everyone about our progress.

We have, therefore, made this framework a 'living document' that is linked to up-to-date information on our performance across all areas of equality and diversity. Therefore, in addition to the overarching strategy we have written a series of linked documents that provide you with further information about our work.