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Race equality scheme

The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 placed a general duty on the County Council to promote race equality in carrying out its functions. The Act also introduced specific duties and one of these is to publish a race equality scheme setting out how the Council will meet its new statutory obligations.

Hertfordshire County Council already has a good record in promoting equality to build on. The Council has an integrated equality strategy (Putting People First), equality trained staff and equality action plans for all our services. Additionally the Council achieved level 3 of the Commission for Racial Equality’s Standard for Local Government. This standard has now been replaced by the Equality Standard for Local Government. HCC has been assessed at level 2 of this wider reaching standard, and is now pushing to achieve level 3 by April 2006.

For more information on the Council's Race Equality Scheme please click on the link below.