Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy

Statement:
SLB’s mission is to make a major contribution to the economic development of South London by fostering individual initiate and working in partnership with the private, public and voluntary sectors.  To succeed in fulfilling our mission, we must ensure that all people have a fair opportunity to access and benefit from our services and activities.
SLB recognises that particular groups in the community face disadvantage and discrimination, and that as a business support organisation we have a key role to play in helping to overcome these barriers.  We believe that quality of opportunity should be an integral part to all of the activities undertaken by SLB.

SLB is therefore fully committed to the active promotion and achievement of equality of opportunity in the provision of our services and as an employer ourselves.

Aim:
To actively promote quality of opportunity for all people irrespective of gender, ethnic or national origin, disability, long term health problem, marital status, caring responsibilities, hours of work, age, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or offender background.

Framework:
The Chief Executive has overall responsibility to the Board for the effective operation and review of the policy.  The Office Manager will be accountable to the Chief Executive for the overall implementation of the policy.

We will seek the advice of an equal opportunities advisor where appropriate to advise SLB on the effective implementation of its equal opportunities policy, and to ensure effective liaison across South London with external partners.

Our internal network of key staff will oversee the development of our equal opportunities strategy.

All staff  and sub-contractors working for SLB will be responsible for implementing SLB’s equal opportunities policy.

Our Objectives are to:

All staff and sub-contractors working for South London Business will be responsible for implementing South London Business’s Equal Opportunities Policy.


Policy Title:  Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy
Policy Subject:  SLB Policies
Accountable person:  Chief executive
Version:  1.0
Policy approved date:  21/05/2008
Next review date:  31/05/2009

 

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