Issue - meetings

(i)            to instruct Officers, in relation to the Community Engagement Guidance, to consider the use of alternative formats of engagement to ensure wider accessibility and to list a range of options available to stakeholders within the Guidance;

(ii)          to note the progress report in relation to the Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Framework as attached at Appendix A of the report;

(iii)         to approve the revised ‘Assessing the Impact of Policies and Practices’  as attached at Appendix B of the report; and

(iv)         to approve the revised ‘Our Guidance for Community Engagement, Human Rights and Equalities’ as attached at Appendix C of the report.

The Board had before it a progress report in relation to the Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Framework (EOMF) and information regarding updates to Assessing the Impact of Policies and Practices and Guidance for Community Engagement, Human Rights and Equalities. 

The Transformation Programme Manager and Senior Project Manager spoke to the report and responded to  questions from Members.

The report recommended:-

that the Board:

(a)         note the progress report in relation to the Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Framework at Appendix A of the report;

(b)         approve the revised ‘Assessing the Impact of Policies and Practices’ at Appendix B of the report; and

(c)          approve the revised ‘Our Guidance for Community Engagement, Human Rights and Equalities’ at Appendix C of the report.

The Board resolved:-

(i)            to instruct Officers, in relation to the Community Engagement Guidance, to consider the use of alternative formats of engagement to ensure wider accessibility and to list a range of options available to stakeholders within the Guidance; and

(ii)          to otherwise agree the recommendations.