Equalities Annual Review 12/13 and Forward Planning 13/14 and - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Equalities Annual Review 12/13 and Forward Planning 13/14 and Forward Planning 13/14 Page 5 Victoria Lawson and Shama Sarwar Agenda Item 6

Agenda Item 6 Annual Review of Equalities 12/13 � Sutton will be including a range of equality activities that have been rolled out � Events this year, Holocaust Memorial Day, Older People’s Day, Interfaith Week Page 6 � Council introduced the Integrated Impact � Council introduced the Integrated Impact Assessment � Policy changes – Welfare Reforms including Localised Council Tax � Smarter Council and plans for assessing impact in 13/14

Draft ideas for 13/14 Plan � Refreshed Equality Charter for Sutton in Partnership: Sutton will work with the VCSE sector and focus on further partnership working � Volunteering and Underrepresented groups: how can we ensure underrepresented groups Page 7 volunteer more? volunteer more? � Strengthening the voice of the BME and LGBT community, traveller community (new action plan) � Events: Supporting events throughout the year e.g. HMD, Interfaith Week Agenda Item 6

Agenda Item 6 Internal Council-focused - Residents Survey 13/14 - Staff Survey: looking into our survey results, what can we do better? - Review of the Community Engagement Strategy - Review of the Community Engagement Strategy Page 8 13/14 13/14 - Changing Sutton report and the implications for cohesion in Sutton: what can we do as a council to prepare? - Review of equality information published

- Next phases of the Integrated Impact Assessments: Are they helpful? What’s changed? Post implementation, strengthen Page 9 link to commissioning cycle link to commissioning cycle - Procurement and Equalities; Research and Intelligence Service and the commissioning cycle - Responding to the review of the PSED Agenda Item 6

Agenda Item 6 � Questions � Suggestions � Any other comments Page 10