Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in all of its activities, both as an employer and a service provider, and seeks to redress unfair and unlawful discrimination against disadvantaged people.
With this in mind, we have developed a comprehensive Corporate Equality Strategy, a number of supporting schemes, and an action plan setting out how we will promote the wide ranging equality agenda. You can access any of the documents by clicking on the links below.
We have also carried out assessments to make sure that we think carefully about the likely impact of policies, procedures, and services on different groups within the community. The full list of impact assessments is attached below. If you would like to seen any in particular please contact June Balcombe on 01256 845477 or email June.Balcombe@basingstoke.gov.uk
We are currently carrying out a detailed review of our approach to equality, to ensure that we are doing all we can, and to see how well we are complying with the intentions of a new national Equality Framework that is being developed. We will publish the outcomes of the review as soon as they are known.