Equality and diversity
Welcome to the Equality and Diversity section of our website.
Here you will find all the corporate work taking place to meet our
equalities agenda and to comply with legislation.
Latest news
The Council has now set it's draft equality
objectives and is currently consulting on these. If you want to
share your views with us please email cpt@seton.gov.uk.
Transformation work continues as austerity measures impact on
the council. All proposals for changes to services have a Equality
Analysis report which identifies issues that we need to be mindful
off and mitigate against to ensure we are not discriminating. All
the reports are contained within the Cabinet
papers and can be viewed here.
All our departments as part of their on-going work identify and
assess the equality implications in delivering their work. They do
this through a number of methods including business planning and
equality analysis reports. A typical
template to assist with this programme can look like this.
As part of our on going work we have a core evidence
base which details who is in our community and the types of
issues they may face. In addition we have produced a smaller
report looking at population.
As a large employer we collect data on our workforce
structure including recruitment, retention, redundancies
and training. We have also conducted an equal pay review to ensure
we have fair terms and conditions across all of our workforce.
Equal Pay
The Council strives for equal pay. An
equal pay audit has been completed for employees covered by the
National Joint Council pay and conditions of service. There
are plans in place to carry out further audits for employees
covered by separate conditions of service. The gender pay gap
information for the NJC population of staff indicates that there is
very minimal pay difference between our male and female
employees. The Council has been working closely with the trade
unions and the pay grades relating to NJC staff were jointly agreed
between the Council and the trade unions.
Training
As part of our on-going commitment we also
have a comprehensive training programme to ensure all of our staff
have an awareness and an understanding of the principles and
performance associated with delivering of services in a fair and
supportive manner. In addition our training programme also covers
project officers, managers and senior managers in skilling them to
identify how the general duties are relevant to their areas of work
and how they can assess performance against these duties.
This section of the site is managed by the Business Intelligence
and Performance Team.
Last Updated on 3/20/2012