Issue - meetings

1.     That the Public Sector Equality Duty Policy, the Equality Impact Assessment template and Equality Duty Action Plan be approved.

2.     That the appointment of a Member Champion and lead Cabinet Member to provide leadership for the city council to meet its Public Sector Equality Duty be agreed.

3.     That a review will occur prior to December 2025 of the Public Sector Equality Duty Policy, the Equality Impact Assessment template and Equality Duty Action Plan which will include any updates that are required to the policy documents and next steps.

Councillor Cutler introduced the report and drew attention to the comments from Audit and Governance Committee as summarised in paragraph 6.2 of the report.  Following the suggestions regarding the importance of allocating designated members and officers to be responsible for meeting the Duty, the following appointments were proposed:

·         Lead Cabinet member – Councillor Clear

·         Member champion – Councillor Becker

·         Project sponsor – Strategic Director and Monitoring Officer

·         Project lead – Corporate Head of Strategic Support

Councillor Cutler explained that following the training being delivered to all members and officers, the establishment of a Members’ Equality and Diversity Inclusion Forum would be examined further with terms of reference brought back to a future Cabinet.

Cabinet agreed the following for the reasons set out above and outlined in the report.

RESOLVED:

1.     That the Public Sector Equality Duty Policy, the Equality Impact Assessment template and Equality Duty Action Plan be approved.

2.     That the appointment of a Member Champion and lead Cabinet Member to provide leadership for the city council to meet its Public Sector Equality Duty be agreed as follows:

a)    Member Champion – Councillor Becker

b)    Lead Cabinet Member – Councillor Clear

3.     That a review will occur prior to December 2025 of the Public Sector Equality Duty Policy, the Equality Impact Assessment template and Equality Duty Action Plan which will include any updates that are required to the policy documents and next steps.