Agenda item

The Equality and Diversity Manager provided a verbal update to Members on recent activity relating to EDHR:-

• The Force had recently engaged with an external reviewer to assess its performance at the Integrating Level for Equality Standard for the Police Service (ESPS). It was noted that a report would be presented to the next meeting by way of a further update.

• The Force’s Disability Enabling Network would soon be re-launched and available to both managers and disabled staff in order to identify appropriate support, policy review and training.

• Following a request from officers, the Association of Muslim Police had provided Islamic Awareness sessions for members of City Police deployed to provide security detail in areas such as mosques. It was planned to make these sessions more widely available to all staff.

• The Equality and Diversity Manager had attended the Stonewall Workplace Conference in early July, which dealt with LGBT equality and would be reported to the Quality of Service / EDHR board on best practice to promote LGBT quality in the workplace.

• Following training for all officers and civilians in January 2013, Impact Assessments were now being posted to the external website in due course that identified priority areas to help address areas of concern.

RECEIVED.