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Equalities Annual Review 12/13 and Forward Planning 13/14 and Forward Planning 13/14

Victoria Lawson and Shama Sarwar

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Annual Review of Equalities 12/13

Sutton will be including a range of equality activities that have been rolled out Events this year, Holocaust Memorial Day, Older People’s Day, Interfaith Week Council introduced the Integrated Impact Council introduced the Integrated Impact Assessment Policy changes – Welfare Reforms including Localised Council Tax Smarter Council and plans for assessing impact in 13/14

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Draft ideas for 13/14 Plan

Refreshed Equality Charter for Sutton in Partnership: Sutton will work with the VCSE sector and focus on further partnership working Volunteering and Underrepresented groups: how can we ensure underrepresented groups volunteer more? volunteer more? Strengthening the voice of the BME and LGBT community, traveller community (new action plan) Events: Supporting events throughout the year e.g. HMD, Interfaith Week

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Internal Council-focused

• Residents Survey 13/14
• Staff Survey: looking into our survey results, what

can we do better?

• Review of the Community Engagement Strategy

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• Review of the Community Engagement Strategy

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• Changing Sutton report and the implications for

cohesion in Sutton: what can we do as a council to prepare?

• Review of equality information published

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• Next phases of the Integrated Impact

Assessments: Are they helpful? What’s changed? Post implementation, strengthen link to commissioning cycle link to commissioning cycle

• Procurement and Equalities; Research and

Intelligence Service and the commissioning cycle

• Responding to the review of the PSED

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Questions Suggestions Any other comments

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