Equality and Diversity in the community
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire Authority (the Fire Authority) is committed to improving the safety of our community. We want to ensure that everyone in our community can fully access and use fire and rescue services appropriate to them. To do this, we need to better understand the diversity of our community and work to develop services and ways of working that meet their needs.
Our Single Equality Scheme brings together action plans from our previous race and disability schemes and identifies further actions required to meet the needs of those previously or potentially disadvantaged on grounds of gender, transgender, age, religion and belief and sexual orientation. The main theme of our plans is to ensure we are accountable to the public for what we do. We will do this by gathering information about the impact of our services, listening and responding to the views and needs of different groups in the community and sharing our progress with them.
We do all this through a process of equality impact assessment. This means that whenever we consider a new service, policy or way of doing things we will consider the impact it might have on different groups before we introduce it. If it seems likely that it could disadvantage a particular group then we will explore other options and find a better solution.
The impact assessments completed in 09/10 and their outcomes are summarised in the Annual Equality Report below. If you would like further details of any impact assessments please contact our Senior Equality Adviser, Alison Scott on 01480 444537.
Supporting Documents
- Annual Equality Report 2009-2010 - Microsoft Word document, 179.50 KB
- Disability Equality Scheme - PDF document, 1341.31 KB
- Single Equality Scheme - Microsoft Word document, 374.50 KB
- Corporate Equality Plan 2008-2011 (Strand specific) - Microsoft Word document, 327.00 KB
- Corporate Equality Plan 2008-2011 (Generic) - Microsoft Word document, 399.50 KB
