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Equality and Diversity
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Message from the Chief Executive
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the advancement of equality and opportunity between different groups, whether they are employees or the patients and public we serve. As a public body we believe it is our duty to work towards eliminating discrimination and help foster good relations between the different groups that make up society.
This is a journey, not a destination. Working with staff, patients, carers, volunteers, our governing body and the wider public we intend to publish equality objectives which will help us work towards our goal of a diverse workforce reflecting the diverse needs of the population we serve.
In this section of the website we will publish equality and diversity information and update information in relation to our objectives and how we are meeting the requirements of the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duty.
Simon Morritt
Chief Executive, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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General Equality & Diversity Scheme 2011
The General Equality Duty
In recent years a range of new legislation and national policy initiatives have been introduced to ensure fair recruitment and employment practice and to ensure that services are fully accessible and appropriate to individual patients
The equality Act 2010 introduced a general equality duty requiring organisations, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to:
- Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act.
- Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
- Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
By:
- Removing or minimising disadvantages suffered by people due to their protected characteristics.
- Taking steps to meet the needs of people from protected groups where these are different from the needs of other people.
- Encouraging people from protected groups to participate in public life or in other activities where their participation is disproportionately low.
The General Equality and Diversity Scheme sets out the updated policy, intended strategic outcomes, key working principles, responsibilities, accountabilities and actions that will enable the Trust to comply with the various pieces of equality legislation and ensure equity in both employment and service delivery.
For further information about the Trust’s General Equality and Diversity Scheme please click here.
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Quarterly Workforce Information Report
Information and Analysis
This section sets out known data on the protected characteristics of our workforce.
Where relevant, the data is analysed against the workforce equality targets identified in the General Equality and Diversity Scheme 2011.
The data is as of September 2011 at which time the total number of people employed by the trust was 2,740.
For further information about the Trust’s Quarterly Workforce Information Report please see the attached links.
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Patient / Carers Advisory Group
Here you can find the latest meeting minutes from the Patient and Carers Advisory Group.
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Impact Assessment
Click here to see the Trust's impact assessments.
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