Long term improvements for Thistle House will continue as part of our Facilities Department’s ongoing maintenance programme. We have used information from the audits to develop information about the accessibility of the Thistle House office on our website. This includes specific information on accessible parking and provides photographs of key entrances to assist people visiting our office. Work to improve accessibility of our Public Defence Solicitors’ Offices (PDSO) and Civil Legal Assistance Offices (CLAO) premises, including information on our associated websites, has been slower due to other business pressures. This work will continue into our next outcomes cycle. Other work we have completed Other work we have completed under our equality outcomes 2013-17 is shown in the table below. Work completed under our equality outcomes 2013-17 Information on the We have audited the accessibility information we hold on firms and accessibility of service other service providers registered to deliver legal aid. This will form providers registered to part of regular data audits and we now request this information as deliver legal aid part of the registration process. The general public can see this information when using our ‘find a solicitor’ feature on our website. (outcome 1) 36% of service providers supply this information (increase from 19%). Please note that we rely on service providers to provide accurate and up to date information. Employee equality data We have changed our equality data monitoring questions for staff and monitoring in our recruitment process to match those used in the Scotland Census 2011 and/ or in line with published good practice The (outcome 2) employee data section in this report provides further information. Inclusion of equality in Our staff performance review process and Learning Management performance System are designed to incorporate “Skills for Success”; a core management criteria competency framework which includes equality and diversity. Further review will be subject to development of SLAB’s people (outcome 2) strategy. Equality data collection We reviewed the way grant funded projects collect equality data used by Grant Funded from their service users. We will consider these findings in future projects projects as appropriate. (Outcome 4)
Long term improvements for Thistle House will continue as part of our Facilities Department’s ongoing maintenance programme. We have used information from the audits to develop information about the accessibility of the Thistle House office on our website. This includes specific information on accessible parking and provides photographs of key entrances to assist people visiting our office. Work to improve accessibility of our Public Defence Solicitors’ Offices (PDSO) and Civil Legal Assistance Offices (CLAO) premises, including information on our associated websites, has been slower due to other business pressures. This work will continue into our next outcomes cycle. Other work we have completed Other work we have completed under our equality outcomes 2013-17 is shown in the table below. Work completed under our equality outcomes 2013-17 Information on the accessibility of service providers registered to deliver legal aid (outcome 1) We have audited the accessibility information we hold on firms and other service providers registered to deliver legal aid. This will form part of regular data audits and we now request this information as part of the registration process. The general public can see this information when using our ‘find a solicitor’ feature on our website. 36% of service providers supply this information (increase from 19%). Please note that we rely on service providers to provide accurate and up to date information. Employee equality data monitoring (outcome 2) We have changed our equality data monitoring questions for staff and in our recruitment process to match those used in the Scotland Census 2011 and/ or in line with published good practice The employee data section in this report provides further information. Inclusion of equality in performance management criteria (outcome 2) Our staff performance review process and Learning Management System are designed to incorporate “Skills for Success”; a core competency framework which includes equality and diversity. Further review will be subject to development of SLAB’s people strategy. Equality data collection used by Grant Funded projects (Outcome 4) We reviewed the way grant funded projects collect equality data from their service users. We will consider these findings in future projects as appropriate.
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