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Barking & Dagenham Council adopted a policy statement on equalities in employment in 1993. Until 2000/01, the Council tended to adopt a piece-meal approach to equalities, reacting to statutory requirements in areas such as sex discrimination and disabilities, rather than developing a coherent and systematic approach to the broad range of equalities issues. The authority responded to recommendations by developing a corporate strategy and framework on equalities which was included as a major commitment in the 2000/01 Best Value Performance Plan.
A vision statement resulted in the formulation of a new community priority - "Promoting Equal Opportunities and Celebrating Diversity" and an implementation report in 2001 provided the means by which the Council proposed to achieve its vision. The Executive agreed a strategy based upon the achievement of key strategic objectives within a three-year time-scale.
A number of departmental successes are already apparent. The Department for Education, Arts and Libraries has adopted the CRE Standard for Youth, published an Ethnic Minority Achievement Action Plan for Schools and started to
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- Analyse statistics and monitor feedback, complaints and racist incidents
- Implement new procedures for the continual assessment of pupil performance amongst black and minority ethnic groups
- Analyse the ethnic background of pupils permanently excluded and develop a new strategy on the over-representation of excluded black, asian and minorityethnic pupils
- Develop the specialist Language Support Service to provide English language teaching for new arrivals and help to raise the achievement of black, asian and minority ethnic children
- Host an annual awards ceremony to celebrate academic success amongst black and minority ethnic pupils
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Initiatives
Community Priorities
Models
Ethnic Minority Partnership Agency
Evaluations
Five Year Best Value Review Programme |
