Equality and Inclusion – Adult Social Care

Our Commitment

Cheshire East Council’s Adult Services is committed to achieving equality for all customers and staff.

The Senior Management Team are committed to establishing equality and human rights principles and values that will govern structures, mechanisms, policies and procedures to address any inequalities in the way services are promoted, delivered, monitored and reviewed.

They also aim to create a culture and environment for service users and staff to be treated fairly and equitably irrespective of race, ethnic origin, nationality, gender, disability, age, gender reassignment, religion, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, political belief or social/economic group.  

The Single Equality Scheme

The Single Equality Scheme is a public commitment of how Adult Services will meet the duties placed on us by equality laws. Our SES is currently based around the six equality strands (ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation and religion and belief), and also includes community cohesion. However, reference is also made to gypsy and travellers, carers and white British from poor areas.

The scheme is currently an interim document because the Council is currently carrying out a corporate consultation on its approach to equality issues.

• Adult Services - Single Equality Scheme (PDF, 330KB)

Equality Impact Assessments

The purpose of an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is to improve the decisions the Council makes. It works a bit like a risk assessment,  providing a systematic way of checking that policies and key decisions do not discriminate against minority groups. 

The Council has currently carried out the following equality impact assessments. More will be added as they are completed.

• EIA - Temporary Closure of Bexton Court (PDF, 92KB)
• EIA - Community Equipment Service (PDF, 110KB) (with Cheshire West and Chester, NHS Western Cheshire)
• EIA - Adult Social Care Complaints (PDF,  79KB)
• EIA - Adult Services Consultation (PDF, 128KB)
• EIA - Adult Services Transport Policy (PDF, 456KB)
• EIA - Adult Services Charging Policy (PDF, 379KB)
• EIA - Occupational Therapy (PDF, 398KB)
• EIA - Jubilee House (PDF, 249KB)
• EIA - Mental Health Advocacy (PDF, 542KB)

Equality Data

In order to understand how to improve our services in relation to equality and inclusion we have to understand the characteristics of our local population and our service users. The documents below give an outline of what we know.

• Cheshire East Age Data (PDF, 144KB)
• Cheshire East Disability Data (PDF, 190KB)
• Cheshire East Race Data (PDF, 752KB)
• Cheshire East Religion Data (PDF, 198KB)
• Cheshire East Gender Data (PDF, 36KB)
• Cheshire East Sexuality Data (PDF, 26KB)
   

Equality Events

Cheshire East Council organised some special events in September 2010 to find out about people's experiences of social care. Key questions that we wanted answered included; how easy is it for you to find information on services, are staff friendly and helpful to people from different equality groups, how easy have you found it to get the help that you need? This feedback was compiled into a report with actions that we will monitor ourselves against.