Agenda item

Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2019/20

Decision:

*RESOLVED –

That it be recommended to Full Council that:

1. The Equality and Diversity Annual Report for the financial year 2019/20 be supported.

2. The Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2019/20 be published on the Council’s website and circulated to partners.

3. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of Antisemitism be formally adopted by the Council.

REASON FOR DECISIONS

To provide the community and relevant organisations with an update of the Council’s work in promoting equality and diversity both within the Council and with our communities.

Minutes:

The Policy Officer presented the Equality and Diversity Annual Report for the financial year 2019/20 to update members on Council improvements and achievements relating to equality and diversity matters.

The Annual Report had been developed in consultation with the Equality and Diversity Forum and included a summary of the equality impact assessments undertaken during 2019/20 with regards Council policies, strategies and plans, and progress updates on the Council’s work in promoting equality and diversity both within the Council and with our communities.

The report also advised that, following the Government’s formal adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of Antisemitism, all local authorities in England had been asked to formally adopt the working definition.