Decision details

4.1       Councillor Morrison invited Councillor Walsh to speak on this item.

4.2       Paul Aladenika, Service Group Manager, Policy Development. introduced the report to the Committee. During the discussion that followed, the following key points were raised:

·         The report included updates from July 2018 and current updates where available.

·         The Council had now delivered a number of important milestones as a response to the review. In particular the “Pride in Practice” which would see staff in 50 frontline Healthcare services being trained to a standard to meet this award.

·         No Equalities Champion had been nominated to date and there were other areas where there were still outstanding actions.

·         The recommendations and actions arising from the Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee’s Review were an important part of the programme of work for the Corporate Equalities Board chaired by Aileen Buckton. Regular updates could be provided to the Committee.

·         The baseline data on the LGBT community in Lewisham was still not in the Corporate Equalities Strategy (CES) and more work could be done on this. This was discussed further during the item on the Comprehensive Equalities Scheme Annual Review where this was raised as an area of work across protected characteristics.

·         There would be consultation and engagement sessions on the new CES. Work would also be done through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment processes too.

·         It would be useful for the committee to hear more about the research being undertaken into the Trans community.

4.3       RESOLVED:

That the report be noted. (see also item 11 for referral on this matter)