Purpose

Review and revise Strategic Equality Plan, 2020-24.  To ensure compliance with The Public Sector Equality Duty, specific to Wales, the Council is required to develop and publish a strategic equality plan, every four years.

Decision

RESOLVED: that

1. the Council’s draft Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy 2024-28 (attached at Appendix A) be approved for engagement and public consultation.
2. the engagement and public consultation to be carried out in relation to the draft Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy 2024-28, as set out in the report, be agreed specifically, paragraphs 38 and 39 and Appendix D; and
3. it be agreed that a further report be received to approve the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy 2024-28, having due regard to the outcomes of the engagement and public consultation, in September 2024.