Public Sector Equality Duty Reports 2023
Contents
- Public Sector Equality Duty Reports 2023
- Our approach to mainstreaming equality
- Roles and responsibilities
- Project management
- Fairer Scotland Duty
- Equality in the Council's procurement function
- Case Studies
- Education
- North Lanarkshire Licensing Board
- Employment
- Progress 2021-23 (Outcomes 1-3)
- Progress 2021-23 (Outcomes 4-6)
- Progress 2021-23 (Outcomes 7-9)
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Employment Gathering Information 2022
- Employment Data 2022 - Sex
- Employment Data 2022 - Disability
- Employment Data 2022 - Ethnicity
- Employment Data 2022 - Age
- Employment Data 2022 - Sexual Orientation
- Employment Data 2022 - Religion and Belief
- Employment Data 2022 - Marriage and Civil Partnership
- Employment Data 2022 - Pregnancy and Maternity
- Training and Development
Equality in the Council's procurement function
A PSED (Specific Duty) requires the council to consider equality matters in award criteria within our procurement function. This Duty features in both our contract strategy development and within tender evaluation criteria.
The Council’s annual procurement report includes performance indicators that demonstrates the Council’s procurement activity:
- continues to drive positive results with increasing SME participation and their increased percentage share of contracts awarded;
- the continued encouragement of suppliers to pay the real living wage;
- the assurance that appointed suppliers have demonstrated due regard for Fair Work Practice; and
- capture of community benefits where practicable.
To advance the application of the Equality Duty and drive greater outcomes from procurement activity, additional consideration will be applied in the next iteration of the Council’s procurement improvement plan that will support identifying the optimum approach in each procurement process to allow the procuring service to better perform the equality duty. Particular features of desired improvement will be applied in future tenders, whereby:
- new data capture from tender processes conducted will provide more clarity on participation and awards i.e. from BAME and women owned business;
- with increased awareness and monitoring, the Council can work with partners, such as Supplier Development Programme, to target training and support
- standard evaluation criteria can be elevated using a stronger question base with potential for increased tender weightings for award criteria related to ‘Equality Duty’, with expectation this will strengthen the support and delivery of equality outcomes from our supply base.
