Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

The Cabinet Member for Corporate Management introduced the annual monitoring reports for the period 2012-2013 for both the Strategic Equality Plan (SEP) and Welsh Language Scheme (WLS), prior to publication and distribution to the relevant regulatory bodies.

On the SEP, the Head of ICT and Customer Services explained that over 80 actions had been due to be completed by March 2013; 41 had been completed, 21 actions were in progress and 13 actions had not been completed/started.

Overall good progress was being made and achievements that had been identified during the first year of the SEP were set out in the report.

There did remain areas for improvement and the purpose of the SEP was to reduce known inequalities for the protected groups identified in the Equality Act.

The WLS Monitoring Report 2012-13 showed that although the Council was successfully implementing many of the commitments, some of the targets had not been met.  Of the 42 actions due to be completed by March 2013, 15 had been completed on time, 12 were in progress and 13 had not been completed/started.

RESOLVED:

That the annual monitoring reports for the period 2012-2013 for both the Strategic Equality Plan and Welsh Language Scheme prior to publication and formal submission to the relevant regulatory bodies be endorsed.