The policy of Amber Valley Borough Council is to provide services fairly to all sections of the community and to give fair treatment to its employees and service users regardless of their age, gender, disability, marital status, race/national origin, religion or belief, or sexual oritentation.
The Council is committed to improving its score for the Equality Standard for Local Government (ESLG) and has a Corporate Equality Plan to achieve this. This will improve communication, access to council buildings and service provision for different groups. In April 2008 the Council declared it had achieved Level 2 of the ESLG and we are now working towards achieving Level 3 by 2010. However, the system is due to change in April 2009 to the Equality Framework rather than the ESLG.
The Corporate Equality Plan incorporates the Council's Race, Disability and Gender Equality Schemes and sets out how the Council will meet its duty to promote equality in these areas.
The Corporate Equality Plan is reviewed each year to reflect new challenges and new action the Council is taking to promote equality. It runs for 3 years, until 2009, after which time it is revised and a new plan will be published.
The plan that is avalaible on this site was reviewed and published in 2007 following a period of consultation and is due to be further updated in 2008 prior to the preparation and publication of a new plan in April 2009.
