Equality Standard for Local Government

Haringey Council continues to work toward reaching the higher levels of the Equality Standard for Local Government and meeting our statutory obligations under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000.

Following the Stephen Lawrence enquiry, the MacPherson report was published with a number of key recommendations – central to these recommendations is the need to eliminate Institutionalised racism.

Haringey Council has taken these principles a stage further by applying them to all areas where discrimination may occur.
Discrimination may take a variety of forms:

• Direct Discrimination
• Indirect Discrimination
• Harassment
• Victimisation
• Out of work discrimination.

Haringey Council Equal Opportunities policy commits us all to working towards eliminating discrimination in all areas of our work.

Existing and new legislation makes discrimination illegal. A key part of all of our work is to ensure Equalities is mainstreamed into every aspect of the organisation's working practices.

The Council has developed a pro-forma which acts as a framework for staff to consider equalities; it identifies where they are now and what steps they need to take over the life of the policy, these are:

• Monitoring
• Consultation
• Impact Assessment / Action Planning
• Communication
• Training.

Equalities is also an integral part of the Council's Project Management framework.

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