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Single Equality Scheme 2010-2013
DRAFT
SUMMARY CONSULTATION DOCUMENT
16 August to 7 November
2010
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Single Equality SchemeSummary consultation documentWe have produced a draft single equality scheme and action plans, which demonstrate our commitment to equality as a commissioner (buyer of services), provider of services and as an employer. Your views and responses to this consultation document will help us to get our equality priorities right and also make sure that our activities in the action plans are realistic and achievable.
Purpose and scope of consultation
The purpose of this consultation is to seek views from service users, stakeholders, staff and the public about the draft scheme and its priorities. These views will inform the final scheme, ensuring that it both reflects the needs of the people we serve and meets our legal obligations.
Your views are important to us. They will be taken into account in our final scheme, which will be published in December 2010.
Before responding to this consultation, you may find it useful to look at our website www.kirklees.nhs.uk to see the kind of work we do.
If you would like a hard copy of this document or in a different format, such as large print, easy read or a different language, please telephone 01484 464074 or email [email protected]. A copy of the full draft scheme can be found at www.kirklees.nhs.uk/public-information/equality-and-diversity or you can contact the Equality and Diversity Manager at [email protected] tel: 01484 464039.
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Responding to the consultation
We would like to know what you think about our proposals so we have included a response form in this document. The consultation runs from 16 August until 7 November 2010 and there are a number of ways you can give us your comments.
Fill in the response form in this document
You can send this, no stamp needed, to: NHS Kirklees, FREEPOST RSHB-GRJU-ALSL, Patient and Public Involvement, Broad Lea House, Bradley Business Park, Dyson Wood Way, Bradley, Huddersfield, HD2 1GZ.
Fill in the form online on our website at: www.kirklees.nhs.uk/public-information/equality-and-diversity/consultation-survey
Call us: 01484 464024 / 5 to comment
Email your response to: [email protected]
Meetings for voluntary and community groups/organisations
If you would like someone to meet with you to discuss these proposals, please phone 01484 464024/5 or email [email protected] and we will try to arrange this.
More information
If you would like to discuss this consultation in more detail, please contact the Equality and Diversity Manager on 01484 464039 or email [email protected]
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Introduction
Who we are and what we doAs the leader of the local NHS, NHS Kirklees has the explicit aim of addressing health inequalities, improving health outcomes and focusing on the health and wellbeing of the population.
NHS Kirklees was established in 2006 from three former Primary Care Trusts (PCT) in Huddersfield and north Kirklees. We have the same boundaries as Kirklees Council and organise our work across the same seven localities, which are shown on the map below.
In common with other PCTs, we have three main functions:
1. engaging with our local population to improve health and well-being;
2. commissioning a comprehensive and equitable range of high quality, responsive and efficient services within allocated resources, across all service sectors; and
3. directly providing high quality, responsive and efficient services where this gives best value.
As a PCT, we are responsible for making sure that NHS services are in place to meet the needs of local people. The PCT is accountable for making sure that these services are safe, accessible, high quality and provide value for money.
In line with national developments, NHS Kirklees has recently internally separated its commissioning function from its community health services. Kirklees Community Healthcare Services (KCHS) is the provider arm of NHS Kirklees and remains accountable to the board of NHS Kirklees.
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Our visionWorking together to achieve the best health and well being for all the people of Kirklees.
Our values• To recognise that people are at the heart of everything
we do.
• To support people in taking responsibility for their own health and well being.
• To show understanding, dignity and respect for all our clients, partners and staff.
• To encourage open, clear and honest communication.
• To value diversity and challenge discrimination.
• To encourage innovation and continuous improvement and celebrate the contribution made by our staff.
• To be accountable for the decisions we make, the work we do, the resources we use and the impact on the environment.
Our strategic goals• Raise male and female life expectancy at birth so that it is
not significantly below the national average in any part of Kirklees.
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• Improve health outcomes for children and young people, working in partnership to improve life chances and safeguard children.
• Target individuals and populations to tackle health and well being inequalities, focusing on the priority issues identified locally. Provide advice, support and care to these individuals, families and communities, in the form of high quality targeted interventions known to work, to increase the control they have over their own health and wellbeing.
• Empower those people in Kirklees with a long term condition to exercise control over their own lives and be central to the decision making about their own care, so preventing problems arising or worsening and enabling them to independently manage their own health and well being.
The population we serveKirklees comprises both urban and rural communities. The total population in 2009 was approximately 427,700. By 2025 the population is predicted to increase by 6.4% to nearly 455,000.
Currently, nearly one in four of the population are aged under 19 years. Half the population is of working age and just under one in seven aged over 65 years. By 2025 the proportion in the working age group will have reduced and those aged over 65 will have increased to nearly one in five as people live longer than before. The increase in those aged over 65 includes a large increase in the proportion living over 85 years. Overall the numbers of births are slightly increasing, particularly among families of South Asian
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origin. More than one in four young people under 19 are now of South Asian origin.
Kirklees has a diverse ethnic mix, with a higher proportion of our population from ethnic minorities than for England as a whole. The largest ethnic minority groups in Kirklees are Pakistani (7%) and Indian (4%). There is a small African Caribbean population mainly located in Huddersfield.
Kirklees is the 82nd most deprived local authority area out of 354 in England. More than 70,000 people locally are now classed as income deprived. This varies across the localities with Dewsbury and Mirfield having 46% of its population living in the 20% most deprived areas, Batley, Birstall and Mirfield 38% and Huddersfield South 37%. Denby Dale and Kirkburton and The Valleys have the lowest proportion of their population living in deprived areas.
What is a single equality scheme?As a public authority, we have a legal requirement to promote equality in relation to gender, race and disability. The new Equality Act 2010 will extend our legal obligations to cover age, sexual orientation, religion and belief and gender reassignment.
This scheme helps us meet our legal duties, promote equality and focus on what is important to our workforce and the community we serve. It explains why equality is important and how we can fulfil our objectives in a way that will be meaningful to our stakeholders and promote equality for all our staff and the population of Kirklees. The development of a single equality scheme provides a framework to integrate equality and diversity into all that we do so that it becomes an integral part of how we carry out our day to day work. Our first ever single equality scheme was published in 2007. Since then we have continuously strived
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to meet and understand the changing needs of our staff and the people living in Kirklees.
The single equality scheme will build on the good work we have already done and will help us to harmonise and coordinate our approach to meeting our equality duties. Our single equality scheme is a ‘living’ document that will develop and evolve in line with legislative and policy changes, feedback from stakeholders and changing priorities.
What do we mean by equality and diversity?Equality means treating everyone with equal dignity and worth regardless of particular characteristics such as their age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. People have different needs, situations and goals. Thus, achieving equality requires the removal of discriminatory barriers that limit what people can do and can be. We recognise that people can experience inequality in terms of:
• Outcomes
• Access to services
• Inequality to treatment, through direct and indirect discrimination or disadvantage imposed by other individuals, groups, institutions or systems intentionally or inadvertently.
Diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique and recognising our individual differences. Diversity builds on equality and focuses on how individual differences and their strengths can be valued for the benefit of both the organisation and the individual.
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What have we achieved so far?The PCT has been working hard in many areas over several years to promote equality for our service users and employees. Listed below are examples of progress made by NHS Kirklees:
1. In 2007, we established an equality and diversity steering group chaired by a non-executive director of the PCT, which reports to the communications and public relations committee. The steering group meets on a bi-monthly basis and includes senior representation from all directorates.
2. In October 2009, we appointed a permanent part-time equality and diversity manager who is our strategic lead for equality and human rights.
3. Equality and diversity training is compulsory for all staff and we include general equality and diversity awareness as part of the mandatory training programme for all new starters. Board members have received bespoke equality and diversity training and HR provides an annual employment update for managers.
4. Diversity driver assessment workshop delivered in January 2009.
5. There are regular reports on the workforce, which includes a range of monitoring data that show the profile of staff by race, gender, disability, religion, age and sexual orientation. We also monitor the progression of staff through the recruitment and selection process, sickness absence and staff undergoing the performance process.
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6. NHS Kirklees publishes an annual report, which includes the range of workforce monitoring data as well as details of key work carried out and a summary of findings from the annual staff survey.
7. In 2009, all the PCT buildings were audited for DDA compliance. As a result issues identified at Holme Valley Hospital were addressed as part of the Hawthorne Ward scheme and an induction loop was included in the reception design for the new HQ along with braille signage. Other issues identified have been proiritised within the PCT’s overall estate plans.
8. In 2010, the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) team added an equality monitoring section to the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment questionnaire used for public consultation, so that feedback could be disaggregated by equality group.
9. The PPI team is currently developing a stakeholders database in partnership with Voluntary Action Kirklees (VAK). The database will include details of seldom heard groups.
10. As part of the public health Women of Childbearing Age (WocBA) project, a new drop-in centre called Auntie Pam’s has been set up in Dewsbury. The project has been designed for local women by local women and is staffed by volunteers with personal experience of pregnancy and parenthood. It is targeted at pregnant women, aged 15 – 25, who are not engaged with services.
11. A free stop smoking club for women, ‘Time for Me’, has recently been launched in Batley.
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Our key prioritiesWe have decided on five priority areas for the scheme action plan, these are;
• Leadership, corporate commitment and governance
• Embedding equality impact assessment (a process used to review our work)
• Consulting and engaging with our communities
• Accessibility and communications
• Workforce and training (being a good employer).
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Single Equality SchemeAction Plan 2010-2013
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a Q
ualit
y
Mar
ch 2
011
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
2.Id
entif
y ar
eas
for
impr
ovem
ent
and
nece
ssar
y ac
tions
to
impr
ove
equa
lity
data
re
cord
ing
The
capt
ure
of
equa
lity
data
fr
om p
rovi
ders
is
impr
oved
Ass
ista
nt D
irect
or
of In
form
atio
n A
naly
sis
and
Dat
a Q
ualit
y
Sept
embe
r 20
11✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
3.Id
entif
y in
form
atio
n re
quire
men
ts o
f th
e eq
ualit
y an
d di
vers
ity
stee
ring
grou
p an
d es
tabl
ish
regu
lar
repo
rtin
g m
echa
nism
s.
The
repo
rtin
g an
d m
onito
ring
of e
qual
ity d
ata
is im
prov
ed
Ass
ista
nt D
irect
or
of In
form
atio
n A
naly
sis
and
Dat
a Q
ualit
y
Sept
embe
r 20
10✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
21Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
4.M
onito
r co
mpl
aint
s/PA
LS b
y eq
ualit
y gr
oup
Tren
ds c
an b
e m
onito
red
by a
ll eq
ualit
y st
rand
s an
d ac
tion
take
n to
add
ress
an
y co
ncer
ns
Hea
d of
PA
LS a
nd
Com
plai
nts
Sept
embe
r 20
10✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
5.To
con
tinue
to
colle
ct a
nd a
naly
se
equa
lity
data
of
our
wor
kfor
ce t
o id
entif
y an
y ar
eas
of p
oten
tial
disc
rimin
atio
n an
d in
equa
lity
and
take
ap
prop
riate
act
ion
to a
ddre
ss a
ny
imba
lanc
es.
Publ
ish
wor
kfor
ce d
ata
repo
rt o
n an
ann
ual
basi
s
Any
are
as
of in
equa
lity
are
iden
tified
an
d ad
dres
sed
thro
ugh
posi
tive
actio
n m
easu
res
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Apr
il 20
10,
then
ann
ually
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
Acc
essi
bili
ty a
nd
co
mm
un
icat
ion
s
1.M
ake
sure
tha
t al
l ou
r pu
blic
atio
ns
are
avai
labl
e in
di
ffer
ent
form
ats
and
lang
uage
s, a
s ap
prop
riate
and
whe
re
requ
este
d
All
our
publ
icat
ions
ar
e ac
cess
ible
to
ser
vice
use
rs
and
the
publ
ic
Hea
d of
C
omm
unic
atio
nsSe
ptem
ber
2010
✓✓
22 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
2.Pr
oduc
e ‘e
asy
read
’ ve
rsio
ns o
f ke
y pu
blic
atio
ns a
nd
publ
ish
on o
ur w
ebsi
te
Peop
le w
ho
have
diffi
culty
re
adin
g an
d w
ritin
g ha
ve
acce
ss t
o ke
y pu
blic
atio
ns
Hea
d of
C
omm
unic
atio
nsM
arch
201
1✓
✓
3.En
sure
our
web
site
is
acc
essi
ble
to
peop
le w
ith d
iffer
ent
lang
uage
and
co
mm
unic
atio
n ne
eds.
In
volv
e di
sabl
ed
peop
le in
the
pro
cess
.
Our
web
site
is
acce
ssib
le t
o al
l ou
r se
rvic
e us
ers
and
the
publ
ic
Hea
d of
C
omm
unic
atio
nsSe
ptem
ber
2011
✓✓
4.U
se s
ign
lang
uage
or
subt
itles
and
aud
io
desc
riptio
n on
all
new
D
VD
s or
sim
ilar
type
s of
med
ia w
e pr
oduc
e
Peop
le w
ith
visu
al a
nd
hear
ing
impa
irmen
t ca
n ac
cess
vid
eos
and
DV
Ds
Hea
d of
C
omm
unic
atio
nsSe
ptem
ber
2010
✓✓
23Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
Wo
rkfo
rce
and
tra
inin
g
1.M
onito
r nu
mbe
r an
d ou
tcom
e of
rep
orte
d co
mpl
aint
s/ in
cide
nts
of h
aras
smen
t,
vict
imis
atio
n, b
ully
ing
and
disc
rimin
atio
n by
equ
ality
gro
up
and
addr
ess
issu
es
iden
tified
. Rep
ort
findi
ngs
annu
ally
to
the
equ
ality
and
di
vers
ity s
teer
ing
grou
p.
All
our
staf
f ar
e tr
eate
d w
ith
dign
ity a
nd
resp
ect
at w
ork
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Mar
ch 2
012,
th
en a
nnua
lly✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
24 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
2.a.
Rev
iew
the
m
echa
nism
for
en
surin
g th
at
reas
onab
le
adju
stm
ents
are
m
ade
and
in p
lace
-
incl
udin
g m
akin
g be
st u
se o
f su
ppor
t sy
stem
s, e
g, A
cces
s to
Wor
k Sc
hem
e.
Invo
lve
disa
bled
st
aff
in t
his
proc
ess.
b. M
onito
r re
spon
ses
from
sta
ff
surv
ey r
elat
ing
to r
easo
nabl
e ad
just
men
ts f
or
staf
f w
ith d
isab
ilitie
s
Dis
able
d st
aff
are
fully
su
ppor
ted
in a
ll ar
eas
of t
heir
empl
oym
ent.
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Mar
ch 2
012
✓
25Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
3.Es
tabl
ish
a w
orki
ng
grou
p to
con
side
r w
here
pos
itive
act
ion
can
be u
sed
to t
arge
t ap
plic
ants
and
sta
ff
from
BA
ME
grou
ps t
o ta
ke u
p em
ploy
men
t op
port
uniti
es,
part
icul
arly
with
in
nurs
ing
and
allie
d he
alth
pro
fess
iona
ls.
Impr
ove
our
wor
kfor
ce
dive
rsity
to
refle
ct t
he
com
mun
ities
we
serv
e.
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
✓
4.Re
view
wor
kfor
ce
profi
le (i
nclu
ding
ap
plic
atio
ns, s
hort
lists
, le
aver
s, t
rain
ing
and
prom
otio
n)
for
each
equ
ality
st
rand
qua
rter
ly t
o id
entif
y an
y po
tent
ial
disc
rimin
atio
n an
d/or
are
as f
or
actio
n to
impr
ove
repr
esen
tatio
n. R
epor
t fin
ding
s an
nual
ly
to t
he e
qual
ity a
nd
dive
rsity
ste
erin
g gr
oup.
Elim
inat
e un
law
ful
disc
rimin
atio
n.
Impr
ove
our
wor
kfor
ce
dive
rsity
to
refle
ct t
he
com
mun
ities
we
serv
e.
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Mar
ch 2
011,
th
en a
nnua
lly✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
26 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
5.C
onsu
lt w
ith s
taff
to
asse
ss t
he f
easi
bilit
y of
est
ablis
hing
sta
ff
netw
orks
for
und
er
repr
esen
ted
grou
ps.
Staf
f fr
om
dive
rse
grou
ps
feel
val
ued
and
supp
orte
d in
the
w
orkp
lace
.
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Sept
embe
r 20
11✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
6.a.
Act
ivity
pro
mot
e fle
xibl
e w
orki
ng
prac
tics
acro
ss t
he
orga
nisa
tion.
b. D
evel
op s
trat
egie
s to
enc
oura
ge
wom
en a
nd m
en
into
are
as w
here
th
ey a
re u
nder
-re
pres
ente
d.
c. P
rom
ote
men
torin
g sc
hem
es t
o en
cour
age
reco
gniti
on o
f w
omen
into
hig
her
grad
es.
Redu
ce t
he
gend
er p
ay
grou
p w
ithin
N
HS
Kirk
lees
.
Dire
ctor
of
Hum
an
Reso
urce
s an
d O
rgan
isat
iona
l D
evel
opm
ent
Mar
ch 2
012
✓
27Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
7.Es
tabl
ish
a w
orki
ng
grou
p to
rev
iew
our
ra
nge
of e
qual
ity
and
dive
rsity
tra
inin
g to
mak
e su
re t
hat
it is
fit
for
purp
ose.
Re
port
find
ings
to
the
equa
lity
and
dive
rsity
st
eerin
g gr
oup.
Our
sta
ff a
re
awar
e of
the
ir re
spon
sibi
litie
s un
der
the
equa
lity
dutie
s an
d w
ider
equ
ality
le
gisl
atio
n.
Port
folio
M
anag
er C
linic
al
Gov
erna
nce/
Equa
lity
and
Div
ersi
ty M
anag
er
Mar
ch 2
011
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
Kir
klee
s C
om
mu
nit
y H
ealt
h S
ervi
ces
1.Id
entif
y no
n-ex
ecut
ive
equa
lity
cham
pion
s to
le
ad o
n th
e pr
omot
ion
of e
qual
ity a
t Bo
ard
leve
l
Equa
lity
and
dive
rsity
issu
es
are
cham
pion
ed
at B
oard
leve
l
Man
agin
g D
irect
orA
ugus
t 20
10✓
✓✓
✓✓
✓
2.Id
entif
y eq
ualit
y ch
ampi
ons
in e
ach
serv
ice
to s
uppo
rt a
nd
advi
se s
taff
Impr
oved
ca
paci
ty a
nd
supp
ort
on
equa
lity
and
dive
rsity
issu
es
acro
ss t
he
orga
nisa
tion
Clin
ical
and
O
pera
tions
Lea
dSe
ptem
ber
2010
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
28 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Act
ion
Ou
tco
me
Lead
Tim
esca
le
Race
Disability
Gender
Age
Religion/ Belief
Sexual orientatioin
Hu
man
Rig
hts
3.A
sses
s st
anda
rd
oper
atin
g pr
oced
ures
an
d fu
nctio
ns f
or
rele
vanc
e to
equ
aliti
es
All
func
tions
an
d SO
Ps
scre
ened
for
re
leva
nce
and
embe
dded
in
thre
e ye
ar E
qIA
pl
anni
ng c
ycle
Clin
ical
and
O
pera
tions
Lea
dSe
ptem
ber
2010
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
4.To
con
tinue
to
colle
ct a
nd a
naly
se
equa
lity
data
of
our
wor
kfor
ce t
o id
entif
y an
y ar
eas
of p
oten
tial
disc
rimin
atio
n an
d in
equa
lity
and
take
ap
prop
riate
act
ion
to a
ddre
ss a
ny
imba
lanc
es.
Any
are
as
of in
equa
lity
are
iden
tified
an
d ad
dres
sed
thro
ugh
posi
tive
actio
n m
easu
res
HR
Lead
Apr
il 20
10,
then
ann
ually
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
5.D
evel
op f
urth
er
actio
ns f
or K
CH
S fo
llow
ing
cons
ulta
tion
with
sta
ff a
nd t
he
publ
ic
KC
HS
has
a ro
bust
equ
ality
an
d di
vers
ity
plan
in p
lace
Clin
ical
and
O
pera
tions
Lea
dO
ctob
er
2010
✓✓
✓✓
✓✓
29Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Single Equality SchemeYour views and comments
30 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Your views and commentsPlease give your views on the proposals in this document by filling
out this questionnaire. An online version of this form is also available at www.kirklees.nhs.uk/public-information/equality-and-diversity/
consultation-survey
1. Is our single equality scheme easy to understand?
Yes No
If not, why not? ..................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
2. What in your opinion are the most important priorities for equality and diversity?
...........................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
3. Do you think we have covered your priorities adequately?
Yes No
If not, why not? ..................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
31Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
4. Do you agree with the key actions in the action plans?
Yes No
If not, why not? ..................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
5. What, if any, other actions would you like to see included in the action plans?
...........................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
6. How can we improve equality and diversity as an employer?
...........................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
7. How can we improve the way we communicate with you and other people in the community?
...........................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
8. Do you have any other comments on our draft scheme or action plans?
...........................................................................................................
...........................................................................................................
32 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
It would be helpful for us to know who has provided feedback. Even if you wish to remain anonymous, we would be grateful if you would complete the following section: (please tick all the boxes that apply to you).
I am; (please indicate yes or no as appropriate): Yes No
A service user or carer
A member of the public
An employee of NHS Kirklees or Kirklees Community Health Services
A representative of another NHS organisation
A representative of a public sector organisation
A representative of a voluntary or community organisation or group
Any other, please specify:
If you are responding on behalf of a voluntary or community organisation, does your organisation mainly represent people from a specific group or community?
Please indicate yes or no as appropriate: Yes No
Ethnicity (please state which ethnic group)
Disability
Gender
Sexual Orientation
Age
Religion or belief
Carers
Any other, please specify:
Please complete this form so we know we have asked the views of people who represent a cross section of the people in Kirklees. This information will be kept confidential.
33Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Monitoring formPersonal details
1. What is your gender? (Tick one box only)
Male Female
Prefer not to say
2. What is your age?
Age Prefer not to say
3. Are your day-to-day activities limited because of any health problem or disability which has lasted, or is expected to last at least 12 months? (Tick one box only)
Yes, limited
Yes, limited a little
No
Prefer not to say
34 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
4. Do you look after, or give any help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long-term physical or mental ill-health / disability or problems related to old age? (Tick one box only)
Yes
No
Prefer not to say
5. What is your ethnic group? (Tick only box only)
A. White British
Irish
Any other white background, write below
.........................................................................................................
B. Mixed White and Black
White and Black African
White and Asian
Any other mixed background, write below
.........................................................................................................
35Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
C. Asian, or Asian British
Indian
Pakistani
Bangladeshi
Any other Asian background, write below
.........................................................................................................
D. Black or Black British
Caribbean
African
Any other Black background, write below
.........................................................................................................
E. Chinese, or other ethnic group
Chinese
Any other, write below
.........................................................................................................
F. Other Prefer not to say
36 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
6. What is your religion or belief? (Tick one box only)
None
Christian
Buddhist
Hindu
Jewish
Muslim
Sikh
Prefer not to say
Other, write below
.................................................................................................
37Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
7. Which of the following best describes your sexual orientation? (Tick one box only)
Only answer this question if you are aged 16 years or over
Heterosexual/straight
Lesbian / gay woman
Gay man
Bisexual
Prefer not to say
Other, write below
................................................................................................
38 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Further involvementIf you would like to be involved in any future consultations on equality and diversity issues for NHS Kirklees, please provide your name and contact details. We will only retain your details for the purposes set out above, and will not share them with any external organisations.
Contact details
Name ................................................................................................
Organisation .....................................................................................
Address ............................................................................................
.........................................................................................................
Telephone number ............................................................................
Email ................................................................................................
When you have filled in this form please return it (no stamp needed) to:
NHS Kirklees, FREEPOST RSHB-GRJU-ALSL, Patient and Public Involvement, Broad Lea House, Bradley Business Park, Dyson Wood Way, Bradley, Huddersfield, HD2 1GZ.
39Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Appendix 1
Our equality dutiesIn revising our single equality scheme, we have extended its coverage to include the new areas of equality (age, religion/belief, sexual orientation and transgender) and human rights that will be coming into force in the new equality bill in spring 2010. Below we have listed our legal obligation in relation to each equality area.
RaceWe have to pay due regard to the following requirements of the race equality duty:
• Eliminate unlawful discrimination
• Promote equality of opportunity
• Promote good relations between people of different racial groups
DisabilityWe have to pay due regard to the following requirements of the disability equality duty:
• Eliminate unlawful discrimination
• Eliminate harassment of disabled people that is related to their disabilities
40 Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
• Promote equality of opportunity between disabled people and others
• Take steps to take account of disabled people’s disabilities, even where that involves treating them more favourably than others
• Promote positive attitudes towards disabled people
• Encourage participation by disabled people in public life
GenderWe have to pay due regard to the following requirements of the gender equality duty:
• Eliminate unlawful sex discrimination
• Eliminate unlawful harassment
• Promote equality of opportunity between men and women
TransgenderThe requirements under the Gender Equality duty to eliminate unlawful sex discrimination and harassment also include the duty to eliminate discrimination and harassment on the basis of gender reassignment.
41Single Equality Scheme 2010–2013
Age The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, makes it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the grounds of age in employment (including promotion, recruitment, terms and conditions including retirement and redundancy, pay and pensions), vocational training and in respect of membership and representation in professional organisations.
Religion or beliefThe Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 makes it unlawful to discriminate against workers because of religion or similar belief. These regulations apply to vocational training and all facets of employment – including recruitment, terms and conditions, promotions, transfers, dismissals and training.
The Equality Act 2006 extends these rights to the provision of goods and services.
Sexual orientationThe Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 outlaws discrimination and harassment on the grounds of sexual orientation in workplaces throughout Great Britain, both in private and public sectors. They cover all aspects of the employment relationship including recruitment, pay, working conditions, training, promotion, dismissal and references.
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 extends these rights to the provision of goods and services.
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