Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to celebrating diversity and promoting equality throughout our services and communities.
We are committed to fulfilling our Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) as set out in the Equality Act 2010, by demonstrating 'due regard' to:
- eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment, and victimisation, and other conduct prohibited by the act
- advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not
- foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not
Protected characteristics, as defined under the Equality Act 2010, include:
- age
- disability
- gender reassignment
- marriage and civil partnership
- pregnancy and maternity
- race or ethnicity
- religion or belief
- sex
- sexual orientation