The equality scheme 2022 to 2025
The equality scheme sets out our commitment to advancing equity and inclusion across Bracknell Forest. The scheme describes how equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to the way we operate as a community leader, a service provider and an employer. It is integral to everything we do.
The equality scheme provides a framework for our equality objectives over a 4-year period. It clearly sets out our priorities, whether it is in how we work with residents, in the services we provide or through the retention and recruitment of our workforce.
The equality scheme is linked to our service planning process. This is to make sure that the implementation of the equality objectives is integrated into the mainstream delivery and monitoring of services across the council wherever possible.
The council has 4 equality objectives, 3 of which are outward-looking (focused on residents and service users) and one that is inward-looking (focused on our workforce).
These are:
Inclusive in all we do
Accessible for all
Accountable and fair
Diverse and inclusive workforce
This report details the progress made in delivering the final year of Bracknell Forest Council’s 2021 to 2025 4 equality objectives.
The council’s equality objectives for 2021 to 2025 have now been updated to include a set of refreshed equality objectives over the period 2025 to 2029. These can be found at All of Us Equality Scheme 2025 to 2029.
Monitor our progress
We recognise that equality and diversity is not a parallel process or something to think about once a year. It is a fundamental part of improving services for everyone.
Each equality objective is underpinned by annual priority actions that take the council towards the achievement of the 3-year strategy. Equality actions identified within the equalities scheme are incorporated within directorate delivery plans and monitored quarterly (detailed at Annex 1).
The progress made in delivering our equality objectives is monitored quarterly by the council’s equalities group, regularly reported to our corporate management team and published yearly on the council’s website.