Tamworth Borough Council has a clear commitment to equality and diversity. We believe that everyone should have fair and equal access to our services.

The council serves a diverse borough so getting services right for all of our residents is important. When we deliver services we must ensure that we do not discriminate in a way that is unfair, illegal or unjustified. Getting this right can mean that we need to tailor our services to ensure that everyone can access them

We think we can do this by listening and working with all sections of the community. We must be prepared to engage people, especially hard to reach groups, in a way which encourages greater participation and dialogue in the decision making process. We can then change what needs to be changed.

A great deal of work is already being done and significant progress has been made, but we recognise there is much more to do.

We have recently published our first Single Equality Scheme which outlines how we will promote diversity and equality in the delivery of our services provided both directly by ourselves and in conjunction with our partners.

All public authorities have a duty to set out their arrangements for assessing and consulting on the impact that their policies could have on the promotion of race, disability and gender equality. To meet this duty Equality Impact Assessments are carried out.

Tamworth Borough Council seeks to become an exemplary council and make sure our services are delivered fairly. To support this we ask for information on our customer’s ethnic origin, disability, gender, age, religion/ belief and sexual orientation. This information helps us improve the delivery of our services by targeting them at the right people.

To gain more detailed information about what we are doing, and how we are doing it, please follow the links on the right hand side of this page