Equal Opportunities

Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and equality of treatment to all. This Policy demonstrates that it will seek to ensure that every member of the public has equal access to its employment and development opportunities, to its services and to all its activities.

The attached report highlights information surrounding the recruitment process during 2006/2007 in accordance with the Councils Equality Scheme.

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Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council believes that valuing Diversity can be a resource because it can produce many business benefits for the organisation as a whole and for individual employees and users of services: For the organisation, the main proven benefits are:

• Recruiting from a wider pool of experienced and skilled candidates which provides Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council with a greater choice when filling vacancies.
• Enhancing organisational flexibility and reducing costs by increased retention of staff. 
• Ensuring that services are equally accessible to all.
• Retaining these skills and the associated cost savings from lower staff turnover and reduced absenteeism.