Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendations.

Councillor Mullin introduced the report and explained that the Council published its equality objectives and four-year Strategic Equality Plan (SEP) in April 2020, fulfilling the requirements of the Public Sector Equality Duties (PSED), as set out in the Equality Act 2010.

The Strategic Executive Officer added that the aim of equality objectives was to address the most significant issues and areas of inequality that faced people with protected characteristics (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation).

The Equality Act 2010 placed specific duties on public sector organisations in

Wales. They included the requirement to publish an annual report by 31^st March each year, which must outline progress on meeting the PSED and achieving the equality objectives. The annual report was appended to the report and highlights the progress the Council had made in implementing its SEP and meeting its equality objectives during 2022/2023.

RESOLVED:

(a)       that the progress made during the year to meet statutory duties in relation to equalities be noted; and

(b)       That the progress made against the Strategic Equality Plan 2022/23, prior to publication of the annual report on the Council website be endorsed.