The scheme and action plan has been developed to address legislative changes, which require public organisations to develop equality schemes and action plans to address issues of disability, gender and race. While Cross Keys is not a public organisation, our regulator, the Housing Corporation is, and it has passed this duty to us. It is essential to anticipate and address legislative requirements and Cross Keys has therefore developed the ‘One’ equality scheme.
The scheme makes a corporate commitment to continuing the work that we have already undertaken and to take forward actions that will enable Cross Keys to achieve the aspirations we have set with regard to equality and diversity. We believe the scheme will make us better able to communicate and manage our equality and diversity commitments and actions and will demonstrate that our approach goes beyond statutory compliance and instead moves us towards mainstreaming equality and diversity within our planning process and ensuring it becomes everyone’s responsibility. The scheme and its accompanying action plan are live documents, which will evolve and be developed and updated over the next three years to make sure they meet the requirement of each of the equality strands.
