The Single Equality Action Plan
The Single Equality Action Plan covers the period September 2008 to September 2011 and is based upon three key areas that provide the framework for detailing the objectives that the College will set and the actions it will be taking over the next three years. In summary, those key areas and objectives are:
i) Promoting equality
- To promote positive images of gender role diversity, disabled people and people from ethnic minorities
- To remove all barriers to accessibility, particularly in relation to employment and to the College’s services, information and buildings
- With respect to race, disability and gender, to ensure that clear and accurate information regarding the College’s staff and student profile is collected and analysed
- To ensure that College policies and procedures do not impose barriers specific to people with a disability, or from an ethnic minority, or of one gender; nor barriers related to age, faith or sexual orientation
- Identify disparities in student or staff success or representation and implement strategies to promote equality
- To ensure that the College’s curriculum and teaching and learning are sensitive to the needs of learner minorities and that they promote equality and diversity
- To take positive action to meet the needs of all minorities including disabled staff, students and service users
ii) Eliminating discrimination and related harassment
- To challenge patronising or discriminating attitudes and behaviour on the grounds of disability, race, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation
- To eliminate any potential discrimination against people who intend to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment
- To eliminate harassment and the fear of harassment on the grounds of disability, race, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation
- To make the College environment as safe as possible for disabled people
iii) Encouraging participation in College life
- To actively seek and monitor the views of staff and students by gender, ethnicity and disability
- To consult and involve disabled people, people from ethnic minorities or discrete gender groups on issues affecting them rather than with people acting or assuming on their behalf
