Social inclusion and community cohesion

Our role in the council

The Social Inclusion Unit is responsible for leading on all equalities, diversity and community cohesion issues relating to Plymouth City Council and the citizens of Plymouth. We also deliver the same regarding community safety and welfare benefit, tax credit, debt and money advice.

The unit has specific responsibilities and expertise in relation to the six equality strands of:

• age
• faith and belief
• disability
• gender
• race
• sexual orientation

We make sure services are delivered with all communities in mind. By working with officers throughout the Council, the Social Inclusion Unit is the support unit that advises on cultural and organisational change both internally and externally.

Our vision

“Plymouth City Council is committed to valuing, promoting and celebrating equality, diversity and community cohesion in order to ensure that our residents, employees and visitors enjoy an outstanding quality of life. We are committed to ensuring that people in our multi-cultural city have equal access to high quality services and the right to live, learn and work, free from unlawful discrimination. Our commitment to equalities applies to everything we do in the Council and with our citizens. It is at the core of our work with partners to make Plymouth a vibrant waterfront city of the world.”

Our team

The Social Inclusion Unit works towards making sure that significant social exclusion no longer exists in our multi-cultural city. We will play a major part in meeting the challenge of Plymouth becoming one of Europe’s most vibrant waterfront cities where everyone enjoys an outstanding quality of life.

We will support the Council to represent everyone regardless of their ethnic or cultural background. To enable us to do this, we will forge more links with communities to help the Council to improve services, celebrate diversity and make Plymouth a great place to live.

Documents

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	Race equality scheme - this provides the new framework within which we will deliver against our commitment to race equality. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 788KB
	Disability equality scheme - provides the new framework within which we will deliver against our commitment to promoting disability equality and to make sure that people with disabilities have a say in the way the Council delivers its services File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 1.2MB
	Gender equality scheme - full copy of Plymouth City Council's Gender Equality Scheme 2007 to 2010. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 715KB
	Corporate equailities plan 2007 to 2010 File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 104KB
	Corporate equalities group work plan 2007 to 2008 File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 102KB
	Annual equalities eeview 2006 to 2007 - a review of Plymouth City Council's work around the six equality strands. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 715KB

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