Race Equality Scheme Revised March 2006

A Race Equality Scheme is effectively a strategy and a time tabled and realistic action plan. It summarises a public authority’s approach to race equality and its corporate aims. It should also indicate how the authority plans to carry out each part of the specific duty, that is, its arrangements for:

• Assessing, consulting on, and monitoring its functions and policies for any adverse impact on promoting race equality:
• Publishing the results
• Making sure the public has access to its services and
• Training employees

The Race Relations (amendment) Act 2000 has placed a duty on North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to promote race equality and to meet both general and specific duties as stated in the Act.

The duty’s aim is to make race equality a central part of the way public authorities work, but putting it the centre of policy making, service delivery and employment practice. Under the general duty, authorities must have due regard to the need to,

• Eliminate unlawful racial discrimination
• Promote equal opportunities
• Promote good relations between people from different racial backgrounds

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