South Kesteven has a rich and diverse culture - a community made up of people from different cultures, with differing backgrounds, beliefs or experiences. This diversity is one of the things that makes South Kesteven such a great place to live and work.
Our vision
As a council, it is our vision to ensure that you, as a resident of South Kesteven, are proud of your district. We want South Kesteven to be a place of diversity, fairness and equality, and this is reflected in one of our core values:
“Respecting all residents and recognising their particular needs”
Whether dealing with our own staff or with members of the public, we aim to treat everyone with respect and we aim to be an organisation that values cultural richness and diversity. We want to ensure that we provide services to all users fairly and equally irrespective of gender, race, disability, ethnic origin, age, religion or sexual orientation. This is why we take the needs of all service users into account, when looking at the services, schemes and policies of the authority.
Obligations and responsibilities
Our council also recognises its statutory obligations and responsibilities, in particular the requirements of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 and Disability Discrimination Act 2005. These require us to eliminate unlawful discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and promote good relations between persons of different groups.
Under this legislation we are required to produce a Race Equality scheme. The council has decided to go one step further and produce a Generic Equality Scheme to ensure that all equality and diversity issues are addressed. Our Generic Equality Scheme will ensure that equality and diversity issues become an integral part of the authority’s work and that these issues are dealt with in a systematic way.
The council is working towards the Equality Standard for Local Government. This standard has been designed as a tool to ensure that local authorities consider all equality issues at all levels of council policy and practice, in terms of both service delivery and employment.
Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see included on this site.
Contact: Chris Sharp at c.sharp@southkesteven.gov.uk or Hilary Lovell at h.lovell@southkesteven.gov.uk