Creating a fairer Britain
We have built on the feedback we received on our first equality scheme and have ensured that we listened to many different individuals, organisations and members of our staff in developing our three-year scheme.
Between November 2008 and March 2009 we carried out an extensive programme of consultation and engagement seeking feedback to shape this scheme. This included involvement events for staff and stakeholders and a public on-line consultation.
Around 600 stakeholders and staff contributed to the consultation and engagement. You can view a list of all the organisations who made a contribution.
We have also actively engaged with our stakeholders to broaden our reach to include smaller, more grass-roots - based organisations and active local individuals who had not yet had the opportunity to engage with us.
We held a series of independent externally facilitated ‘New Voices’ involvement events across England, Scotland and Wales. Through these events we have engaged with young people, transgender individuals, Gypsies and Travellers, faith groups and people with learning disabilities as well as representatives from more mainstream equality strands.
Running parallel to our New Voices involvement events we held seven strand-specific workshops for equality experts.
How we have used the feedback from the involvement and engagement.
We analysed all of the responses we received and used these to inform the equality scheme and its action plan.
A summary of consultation responses received will be available here shortly.
The outputs from the ‘New Voices’ events and all comments and submissions to the on-line consultation are available from the consultation website.