Strategies

Salford City Council is required by law to publish regular updates on our progress in promoting equality and tackling discrimination.

In the past, separate race, gender and disability schemes were produced to meet our legal commitments under the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000, Disability Discrimination Amendment Act 2005 and Equality Act 2006. As equality law has developed to include other characteristics such as religion and belief and sexual orientation, many public organisations have opted to produce single equality schemes, which bring together their work on all the different strands.

The Equality Act 2010 has extended the scope of equality law. Statutory guidance indicates that councils must:

Prepare and publish equality objectives by 6 April 2012, and at least every four years after that.
Ensure that the objectives are specific and measurable, and set out how progress towards the objectives will be measured.
Publish details of their engagement in developing the equality objectives also at least every four years, and in line with their publication of objectives.
Consider its published equality information before preparing and publishing these objectives.
Publish the objectives in a reasonably accessible format either as an individual document or as part of another report such as a business plan.

Salford City Council is currently developing its first Single Equality Scheme which will outline our priorities for the next three to four years. We are committed to publish this by March 2012 and progress at least once a year.

This page also provides an archive which contains samples of previously published equality strategies and associated annual reports.