DWP equality schemes
Under the equality legislation that applied up to 2010, the Department for Work and Pensions was required to produce and publish race, disability and gender equality schemes. These schemes were used to set out how we were taking forward our legal duties.
Equality schemes were written documents describing a complete picture of what the organisation was doing to promote equality for both customers and staff. Amongst other things, they included an action plan, which was developed taking into account customers’ views about where we most needed to act.
Equality schemes were reviewed every three years and progress reports were published annually until 2010.
- Progress reports 2010 (published 27 September 2010)
- Progress reports 2009 (published 30 June 2009)
- Equality schemes 2008-2011 (published 29 May 2008)
- Progress reports 2007 (published 30 November 2007)
- Equality schemes 2006-2008 (published 1 December 2006)
DWP equality information
From 2010, under the new Equality Act, Public Sector Equality Duty, as a public authority, the Department for Work and Pensions is required to publish, at least annually, relevant, proportionate information to demonstrate our compliance with the legislation. This replaces the previous requirement to publish equality schemes.
