protected groups before reaching their decision to ensure that the County Council meets its Public Sector Equality Duty and avoids challenge of decisions. Ensure that appropriate training and Resource Following a successful pilot programme this year, the following is included in the development opportunities are made Management provisional training and development plan for Councillors for September, October and available and promoted for Councillors November 2017: following the 2017 County Council Equality and Inclusion training by the Council’s Lead officer for Equalities and Inclusion to elections. cover duties from Equalities Act 2010, protected characteristic, equalities governance at SCC, SCC’s equality objectives, demographic and cultural picture of Suffolk and working with partner agencies. Additional information will be provided for councillors promoting e-learning ‘Equality Essentials’ as part of the induction for councillors from May 2017 and other training provided to respond to emerging issues. We will evaluate our services to Our analysis of the intelligence suggests the following are statistically significant areas of Children & understand whether are unintentional concern. We will investigate for unintentional bias: Young biases affecting protected groups. People’s Asian and black children are under-represented in Mental Health services Services Suffolk Black children perform less well in education ethnic groups are often over-represented in our services (this may be due to ‘Other’ recording) Actions identified: Improve recording of all protected characteristics in service delivery Review areas of concern in take up of our services (including Asian and Black ethnic minority children in mental health, and Black ethnic minority children in education) Review ethnic categorisation, and over representation of the ethnic group ‘Other’ We will target better attainment for Educational attainment for children with SEN support has improved, but performance Children & children with special educational needs, has significantly reduced for children with a SEN Statement or EHC Plan. Young
protected groups before reaching their decision to ensure that the County Council meets its Public Sector Equality Duty and avoids challenge of decisions. Ensure that appropriate training and development opportunities are made available and promoted for Councillors following the 2017 County Council elections. Resource Management Following a successful pilot programme this year, the following is included in the provisional training and development plan for Councillors for September, October and November 2017: Equality and Inclusion training by the Council’s Lead officer for Equalities and Inclusion to cover duties from Equalities Act 2010, protected characteristic, equalities governance at SCC, SCC’s equality objectives, demographic and cultural picture of Suffolk and working with partner agencies. Additional information will be provided for councillors promoting e-learning ‘Equality Essentials’ as part of the induction for councillors from May 2017 and other training provided to respond to emerging issues. We will evaluate our services to understand whether are unintentional biases affecting protected groups. Children & Young People’s Services Our analysis of the intelligence suggests the following are statistically significant areas of concern. We will investigate for unintentional bias: Asian and black children are under-represented in Mental Health services Suffolk Black children perform less well in education ‘Other’ ethnic groups are often over-represented in our services (this may be due to recording) Actions identified: Improve recording of all protected characteristics in service delivery Review areas of concern in take up of our services (including Asian and Black ethnic minority children in mental health, and Black ethnic minority children in education) Review ethnic categorisation, and over representation of the ‘Other’ ethnic group We will target better attainment for children with special educational needs, Children & Young Educational attainment for children with SEN support has improved, but performance has significantly reduced for children with a SEN Statement or EHC Plan.