MVDC’s Equality Policy Statement sets out our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Our Equality Policy Statement document incorporates our Equality Objectives. To support the delivery of these objectives, every year an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan is devised.
2023 – 2024 EDI Action Plan
| Ref | Proposed Action | SMART Objective | Responsible Officer | Target completion date |
| 1 | Publish information about residents and service users with protected characteristics | Utilise Surrey i and 2021 Census info to publish information regarding the nine protected characteristics in Mole Valley | Lindsay Hill | Mar-24 |
| 2 | Ensure EDI and accessibility information is always available for consideration in any service review and transformation work | Capture data for the nine protected characteristics as part of all MVDC service reviews and transformation work. Demonstrate and capture due regard to the three aims of the Equality Act 2010 in any decision making | BMT leads (supported by Lindsay Hill) | Service reviews in line with transformation programme |
| 3 | Publish MVDC workforce EDI statistics | Capture and publish data for protected characteristics annually. Ensure required gender pay gap info is available on the MVDC website in an accessible format for at least three years | HR (supported by Lindsay Hill) | Mar-24 |
| 4 | Publicise the information that is publicly available on the accessibility of venues across the Mole Valley District Council area | Working with Mole Valley Access Group and AccessAble, publish and share venue accessibility info in Mole Valley | Candida Goulden (supported by Comms) | Mar-24 |