Single Integrated Equality Scheme

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Written by Deputy Director of Workforce

This document is Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust’s single Equality and Diversity Scheme for the three-year period from December 2009 through to December 2012. It sets out how the Trust will meet its legal responsibilities under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, the Equality Act 2006, the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Employment Equality Regulations for Age, Religion or Belief, and Sexual Orientation.

The Trust is committed to the public equality duties covering disability, gender and race, requiring it to:

promote equality of opportunity;
eliminate harassment and unlawful discrimination;
promote positive attitudes towards disabled people;
promote good relations between people of different racial groups;
encourage participation by disabled people in public life; and
take positive steps to take account of disabled people's disabilities, even where that involves treating disabled people more favourably than other people.

This Scheme also covers age, religion and belief (including people who hold no religious beliefs), gender and transgender (equality between men, women and people who intend to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment), and sexual orientation.

The Trusts single equality scheme therefore embraces action on all six strands including religion and belief, age and sexual orientation. In doing so this scheme replaces the Trusts pre existing Race Equality Scheme, Disability Equality Scheme, and Gender Equality Scheme.

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 05 January 2011 14:44 )

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