Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Equality & Diversity

These pages will provide you with a range of useful information, advice and guidance on how Dudley Council promotes equality and diversity within employment and the service it provides.

Dudley Council has worked with local agencies and communities in the borough to prepare an overall vision for the borough – the Dudley Borough Community Plan. This has the aim of of working towards a fairer society and equality of opportunity is a central part of the plan.

The overall aim of the council with regards to equality and diversity is to:

eliminate unlawful discrimination and harassment
promote equality of opportunity; and
promote good relations and positive attitudes between people of diverse backgrounds

In its employment and practices, in its services, and in its engagement with partners and with the communities of the borough. This includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious beliefs, gender, marital status, responsibility for children or other dependents, disability, sexual orientation, transexuality, age, trade union or political activities, social class, where the person lives or spent convictions.

The council aims:

to provide community leadership on equality and diversity issues and to work with its partner organisations and the community to make the Borough a place to live, work and visit free from discrimination and harassment
to incorporate equality and diversity principles from the start in all its policies, plans and strategies
to undertake equality impact assessments to judge the impact of its policies and services and to determine the needs of its employees, customers and citizens

to identify the equality and diversity outcomes it wants to achieve for its employees, customers and communities
to reflect the diversity of the Borough in its publications, events and other marketing and communications activities
in accepting the definition of institutional racism set out in the Macpherson Report, to seek to address institutional racism and other forms of discrimination

in accepting the definition of a racist incident set out in the Macpherson Report, to deal with such incidents with due seriousness
to follow the social model of disability
to apply the principles of this policy in its procurement activities and in services commissioned through other organisations
to work towards achieving level 5 of the Equality Standard for Local Government and to undertake self-assessment, scrutiny and audit of its progress

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