The council’s equality and diversity action team (EDAT) is made up of senior departmental equality and diversity representatives, a senior member of the audit team, the corporate equalities officers and other officers of the council. The EDAT group meets at least every three months to provide strategic direction, guidance and performance management to Members, departments and partners on equality and diversity issues, as well as discuss and act on equality and diversity issues within the authority and partnerships.
The members of EDAT feedback to their departmental equalities working groups which are tasked with ensuring that corporate equality commitments are translated into action and therefore devise and deliver equalities outcomes for service users. These working groups also provide two-way communication of equalities issues between customer facing staff and corporate centre through EDAT. Via the departmental equalities working groups, each council department produces an annual equalities action plan and these are further backed-up by plans produced at service level.
To see the Corporate Equalities Action Plan and each Departmental Equalities Action Plan, please see the Read More box to the right of the screen.