Top ranking for high earning minority staff
Waltham Forest is proud to be one of the leaders in the proportion of highest paid council officers who come from ethnic minorities, coming second to Hackney, in a ranking of 33 London boroughs.
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Council receives national recognition for working with its communities
Waltham Forest Council and the Borough’s police have been awarded Beacon status for their work in building Cohesive and Resilient Communities.
» Read more on community cohesion
Achieving Equality
Waltham Forest Council is delighted to announce that it is now one of seven Councils in London to achieve level four of the Equality Standard.
The standard addresses the six equality strands; age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation, over five levels of development ranging from having an equality policy (level one) to making significant progress in achieving equal employment and service provision with regard to equality (level five).
» More on the Equality Standard
Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2008
Waltham Forest Council's performance keeps going from strength to strength and this includes our performance in delivering improved equality outcomes for our residents and staff.
The Annual Report gives a taste of some of the things we are doing to promote equality and community cohesion, and to close equality gaps.
» Download the Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2008 (764KB PDF file)
» Download the Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2008 (141KB Word file)
Living Together Working Together: Community Cohesion Strategy 2008/11
This strategy establishes Waltham Forest’s approach to community cohesion over the next three years. It identifies some of the key challenges facing the Borough and recommends practical ways in which we, in partnership, can attempt to deal with them.
» Download Living Together Working Together (984KB PDF file)
Corporate Equality Plan 2007/10
The Corporate Equality Plan contributes to making our vision for 2012 a reality by translating the London Borough of Waltham Forest’s equalities policy into action. Through these actions we aim to play our part by providing fair, appropriate and accessible services to all our users and by becoming a representative employer that positively values the contribution of all its employees.
» Download the Corporate Equality Plan (111KB Word file)