To ensure we are working towards a fairer County Borough, and considering our duties to make sure everyone is treated equally, every four years we identify a set of strategic equality outcomes that we want to work towards. These are embedded within our Council Plan Priority outcomes.
Each outcome is linked to at least one of the protected characteristics; as defined by the Equality Act 2010 (external link). The Equality and Human Rights Commission provides an explanation for each of the protected characteristics:
| Equality outcome | Which protected characteristics? | Which Council Priority? |
|---|---|---|
| The council is an ‘employer of choice’ able to recruit and retain a diverse and sustainable workforce, which is supported by improved working environments and flexible working opportunities. We will identify and address any gender pay gap |
| Ensuring a Modern and Resilient Council |
| Our customers are able to contact us easily, through digital systems which are built around their needs. Our services are inclusive and we ensure that we support those customers who would like to use our digital services, as well as continuing to offer more traditional ways of contacting us, for those who need it. |
| Ensuring a Modern and Resilient Council |
| Welsh language and culture is thriving within our workforce and our communities and is actively promoted and supported. |
| Ensuring a Modern and Resilient Council |
| Wrexham is a place where everyone knows they can get involved to influence the planning and delivery of services. People are engaged, and consulted with on decisions which affect them, and where we can, we work to design and deliver services, and make things happen together. |
| Ensuring a Modern and Resilient Council |
| People are safeguarded from exploitation, violence and all forms of abuse, through working in partnership to increase awareness of the victims of exploitation and the available reporting pathways |
| Ensuring Wrexham is a Fair and Safe Place |
| Our communities are welcoming, and we promote and celebrate our communities’ diversity and cultures and ensure appropriate access to all services for everyone. |
| Ensuring Wrexham is a Fair and Safe Place |
| People seeking sanctuary from war or humanitarian crisis are supported to build a sustainable future in the County Borough. |
| Ensuring Wrexham is a Fair and Safe Place |
| All learners are supported to improve their education outcomes, and inequalities in outcomes between different groups of learners will be reduced. |
| Improving Education and Learning |
| Our learners have a positive learning experience through access to an environment that is accessible and fit for purpose and allows a choice of Welsh and English medium education. |
| Improving Education and Learning |
| Children and adults are supported to have good mental health and well-being, by public services partnerships and communities working together. There is a focus on mental health support provided through prevention and early help mental health services to reduce demand for services later on. |
| Promoting Health and Well-being (with a focus on social services and good mental health) |
| We make certain our social care services meet the needs of those who use them by making sure the voice of children, adults, families and carers is heard and listened to. |
| Promoting Health and Well-being (with a focus on social services and good mental health) |
For more detail on our actions/measures please see our Council Plan page.
You can also find out about how we are progressing with our equality outcomes on our Performance Management Framework Page.
Who has responsibility for the strategic equality outcomes?
- Responsibility for the delivery of the Strategic Equality Plan lies with the Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team.
- Elected members have responsibility for overseeing the delivery of the Strategic Equality Plan and making sure that equality impacts are given proper consideration when making decisions about Council business.
- The Lead Member whose portfolio includes equality gives overarching support to the development and delivery of the plan.