Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods updating Members on the work officers have undertaken regarding equalities, as well as the work that the Equality and Diversity Working Group has completed this year.

RESOLVED that the work undertaken by Council officers, the Equality and Diversity Working Group, elected members and Council partners regarding equalities is welcomed.

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods that updated Members on the work officers have undertaken regarding equalities, as well as the work that the Equality and Diversity Working Group has completed, this year.

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods highlighted the key features of and background to the report.  He particularly drew Members’ attention to the Commission to Review Race Relations (3.3.1) and the Monuments Review (3.3.2).  The Leader of the Council commented on the enormous amount of effort put in by the contributors to both and the extraordinary breadth and depth of the latter.

RESOLVED that the work undertaken by Council officers, the Equality and Diversity Working Group, elected members and Council partners regarding equalities is welcomed.