https://www.slab.org.uk/corporate-information/how-we-work/equalities-and-diversity/
We want to help people access the legal support they need and empower our people to shape and deliver a legal aid system that supports a just, safe and resilient Scotland.
Our new Equality Outcomes Plan 2023-26 provides an overview of the work that we are going to undertake to achieve our outcomes and how we will measure the impact on relevant equality groups.
The plan is aligned to our corporate plan and contributes to our vision, mission, purpose and corporate objectives.
We have published our Year 1 Progress Report for 2023 and our Equality Outcomes Progess Final Update for 2021-23 in the Reporting section below.
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Year 1 Progress Report: Equality Outcomes Plan 2023-26 | 250 KB | |
Equality Outcomes Progess Final Update 2021-23 | 768 KB | |
Equality Outcomes Progress and Mainstreaming Report Oct 2020 | 989 KB |
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Equality monitoring of employee protected characteristics 2023-24 | 337 KB |
Transparency in our decision making is supported by our equality impact assessment (EqIA) process.
Our approach to this ensures we consider the impact of new and current policies or projects on protected equality groups.
It also helps us meet the general public sector equality duty to have due regard to the need to:
We seek to collect equality monitoring data on applicants to help with our strategic development and for routine monitoring of our decision-making.
We publish the information we collect in line with our value of transparency.
A Criminal Justice Disability Project (CJDP) was set up by the Justice Board to promote and enable accessibility of service across the criminal justice sector in Scotland for people with disabilities.
In 2013, the Justice Board within the Scottish Government asked its Equality Diversity Sub Group to address the contents of three reports:
The Sub Group created a project team to take this work forward and also address the actions arising from the Keys to Life report from SOLD (Supporting Offenders with Learning Disabilities) and the recommendations arising from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
The member organisations published a final report of the CJDP in June 2018.
A large print version is also available or you can view a BSL version of the Executive Summary.
The intention of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 is to make provision about gender representation on boards of Scottish public authorities.
Legislation is just one measure the government is taking towards a more equal society in Scotland and it is vital that work to ensure participation and representation of women from diverse backgrounds and with intersecting identities creates lasting changes to cultures and the structures.
The “gender representation objective” for a public board is that it has 50% of non-executive members who are women.
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Report on gender objective May 2020 - April 2021 | 198 KB |
We are keen to hear your views about:
Please provide feedback or let us know if you would like to get involved in our equality work by contacting our Corporate Policy Officer (Equalities) using the details below:
Direct dial: 0131 240 1981
Email: equalities@slab.org.uk