Equality Act 2010 

The new Equality Act simplies and integrates equality legislation and extends protection to nine protected characteristics based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.    

The Public Sector Equality Duty, known as the 'General duty' requires all public service providers to have 'due regard' to: 

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation. 
• Advance equality of opportunity between people from different groups.
• Foster good relations between people from different groups.

As a Council, we are required to consider equality and diversity in everything we do and to play an important part in working towards the life chances and opportunities for all local people.  This includes the need to provide services which have been planned and delivered around people's needs and to represent value for money on behalf of people of Sandwell.

The specific duty requires that we:  

• Have 'due regard' to implement the 3 requirements of the general duty (as above)
• Identify Equality Objectives
• To publish equality information, and
• Assess the impact of our policies on employees, service users and schools

Sandwell Councils Equality Objectives

Sandwell is committed to ensuring that services are provided that embrace diversity, promote equality of opportunity and access. As an employer we are also committed to equality and valuing diversity within our workforce.  Our goal is to ensure that this commitment is embedded in our day to day working practices with all our customers, colleagues and partners.

Sandwell Council has identified three key equality objectives that demonstrate our commitment to eliminating unlawful harassment and discrimination, and to promote equality of opportunity, and these underpin the Sandwell Scorecard.

 Our three equality objectives are:  

• We will build strong and prosperous communities by talking to people and involving them in what we do
• We will ensure that people can use our buildings, service and information
• We will ensure that we meet individuals' needs in the range of service we secure

Links

Sandwell Council's Statement of Intent for Equality and Diversity

Sandwell Scorecard and Equality Objectives

Equality Information

As part of our commitment towards greater openness and transparency this Equality Home page provides a link to access further data and information: 

  General Links

Sandwell Council's Scorecard

Sandwell Trends (Information/ Data concerning Sandwell)

Committee Management Information System (CMIS)

Equality Impact Assessments

Employment Links

Staffing Profile - HR

Workforce Statistics

Specific Equality Data

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Educational:

Early Years Foundation Stage

Key Stage 1 Achievement 

Key Stage 2 Achievement

Key Stage 4 Achievement

Surveys:

My Council Survey

Adult Social Care:

Information available soon

General Equality Data:

Ethnicity Data for Sandwell