About New Prospect

New Prospect Equality and Diversity Policy

The policy sets out:

  • Our equality and diversity statement
  • Our aims and objectives for equality and diversity
  • How we will address employment, carers, race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability and age
  • Staff, board members, senior management and managers responsibilities for the policy
  • How the policy will be implemented
  • How the policy will be communicated
  • Key targets and performance indicators
  • How the policy will be monitored
  • How the policy will be developed and reviewed
  • New Prospect Equality and Diversity Policy
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New Prospect Equality and Diversity Strategy

Equality and Diversity is a key theme at New Prospect influencing all our activities and central to the delivery of our mission and the Council's vision for housing within the city.

The strategy sets out how we will apply our Equality and Diversity policy fairly, fully and consistently throughout New Prospect.

To do this we will:

Race Equality Scheme

Salford has a developing multicultural heritage and we value diversity and the contribution it makes to the success of New Prospect. We therefore recognise that the promotion of race equality through our race equality scheme will further reinforce this success.

We have produced a race equality scheme to:

  • Help us meet the general and specific duties arising from the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
  • State our commitment to race equality
  • Work actively to promote race equality in everything we do
  • Race Equality Scheme
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Impact Assessment Timetable

As part of the race equality scheme, we set out our arrangements for assessing, and consulting on, the likely impact of any new policies on promoting race equality. This means we set out the arrangements we have made to assess the likely impact of policies we are proposing to introduce before we adopt them. We also make arrangements to consult people who are likely to be affected by our policy proposals and their implications for promoting race equality. Finally, to meet the general duty we will review and revise these proposed policies, if assessment and consultation shows adverse impact on some racial groups.

In the race equality scheme, we set out our arrangements for monitoring any adverse impact our policies have on promoting race equality. Monitoring will help us to check whether our policies, operations, and organisational culture are discriminating against some racial groups. Without ethnic monitoring data, there is no reliable way of knowing whether discrimination might be taking place, or whether policies to prevent or tackle it are working. Monitoring can also help find out why and how discrimination takes place. We set out our arrangements for publishing the results of our assessments, consultations, and monitoring. The timetable details when Impact Assessments will be undertaken. We will then publish completed impact assessments on the internet.

Completed Impact Assessments

Our Equality and Diversity Targets for 2006/7 are as follows:

Equality and Diversity Targets 2006/7

Target Actual 2005/6

Target 2006/7

BVPI 164

CRE Code for Rented Housing

 Yes Yes

BVPI 74b

Satisfaction of ethnic minority local authority tenants with overall service provided by their landlord

 69% 75%

Percentage of ethnic minority employees

 4.49% 4.5%

Percentage of employees with a disability

 1.55% 1.5%

Comply with DDA 2005

 N/A Compliance
Data collection: to have achieved 50% disclosure of ethnic background 37% 50%

Local Government Equality Scheme

 Level 2 Level 3

If you have any questions about these targets please contact Julia Ward (details below). Alternatively, pop into your local housing office and ask to speak to a member of staff.

We welcome your views and would like your contribution in setting targets that are going to improve the services we provide.

If you have any ideas, questions or concerns about any issues related to Equality & Diversity please contact:

Julia Ward
Equality and Diversity Officer
New Prospect
Turnpike House
Eccles New Road
Salford
M50 1SW.

Telephone: 0161-922 7331
E-mail: julia.ward@new-prospect.org

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