Issue - meetings

That the Confident in Surrey’s Future: Equality, Fairness and Respect Strategy 2015-2020 be approved and that progress towards its priorities be reported on an annual basis through the Council’s corporate performance reporting arrangements.

Reasons for Decisions:

Approving Confident in Surrey’s Future: Equality, Fairness and Respect Strategy 2015-2020 will support the delivery of the Council’s commitment to ensure best practice in equality, fairness and respect, in the services it provides and in its workforce. It will also ensure that statutory requirements for the publication of equality objectives continue to be met.

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Introducing the report, the Cabinet Member for Business Services and Resident Experience said that, following approval of the Council’s Corporate by the County Council in February 2015, this Strategy had been refreshed to align with the Council’s Corporate Strategy, Confident in Surrey’s Future: Corporate Strategy 2015-2020 in order to help achieve the Council’s three strategic goals of wellbeing, economic prosperity and resident experience. The refresh had focussed first on the evidence base of the needs of Surrey residents with protected characteristics.

The Cabinet Team were supportive of the strategy, particularly the clear and  simple one page format of Confident in Surrey’s Future, Equality, Fairness and Respect Strategy 2015 – 2020.

It was also confirmed that the strategy had been considered at the Council Overview Board and had been endorsed by it. Also, referring to the Looked after Children implications, the Cabinet Member for Highways, Transport and Flooding reminded Members that every elected Member had signed up to being a corporate parent.

RESOLVED:

That the Confident in Surrey’s Future: Equality, Fairness and Respect Strategy 2015-2020 be approvedand that progress towards its priorities be reported on an annual basis through the Council’s corporate performance reporting arrangements.

Reasons for Decisions:

Approving Confident in Surrey’s Future: Equality, Fairness and Respect Strategy 2015-2020 will support the delivery of the Council’s commitment to ensure best practice in equality, fairness and respect, in the services it provides and in its workforce. It will also ensure that statutory requirements for the publication of equality objectives continue to be met.