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Our Equal Opportunities Statement of Intent
Commitment to change
Fundamental to these beliefs is the Bureau's commitment to developing equal opportunities. Camden Volunteer Bureau recognises that in society some groups of people have traditionally suffered disadvantage or discrimination. The Bureau is opposed to such discrimination in all its forms, and is committed to ensuring that equal opportunities and anti-discrimination practices are central to its delivery of its services, composition of the Management Committee and recruitment of staff
Camden Volunteer Bureau is committed to the elimination of harassment, discrimination and prejudice experienced by individuals and groups because they are women, black, lesbian or gay, suffer mental ill-health, or have a disability. We also oppose harassment, discrimination and prejudice directed towards people because of their religious beliefs, cultural background, ethnic origin, nationality, language, class, age, responsibilities as carers, criminal convictions, or HIV antibody status
Statutory Requirements
Camden Volunteer Bureau welcomes the statutory requirements laid down in the Disability Discrimination Act 1996, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, The Equal Pay Act 1970 and other anti-discriminatory legislation enacted within the United Kingdom or the framework of the European Community. We also welcome the considerable movement towards equal opportunities that has been achieved by the efforts and struggles of disadvantaged people themselves. Camden Volunteer Bureau recognises that it has moral and social responsibilities that go beyond the provisions of the above mentioned statutory Acts, and we declare our intention of supporting and contributing to the wider process of change in our society.
Equal Opportunities Practice
It is the Volunteer Bureau's intention actively to pursue equality of opportunity in the whole range of its work. This policy applies to the Bureau's paid staff, Management Committee members, volunteers, user agencies and any other individuals actively involved with Camden Volunteer Bureau. It will be made known to all applicants for paid jobs and all prospective volunteers and Management Committee members.
In particular, the Bureau will:
- Aim to ensure that the services we deliver to individuals and groups are based on equal opportunities principles.
- Aim to ensure that the composition of the Management Committee and staff and volunteer recruitment practices also reflect those principles.
- Refuse to tolerate discrimination by our clients, members or other users of our facilities or services.
- Seek to increase awareness of discrimination in society, the problems it causes, how it affects the work of Camden Volunteer Bureau, and thus the need for all of us to challenge and combat discrimination wherever it is found.
- Promote the concept of the need for a caring and responsible society.
- Seek to increase our involvement with other organisations which also challenge discrimination.
- Take whatever steps we can to encourage those organisations with which we have contact to undertake similar initiatives.
- Require all our client organisations to abide by our Equal Opportunities Policies when accepting volunteers from the Bureau.
- Require all members of the Bureau, and people seeking placement via the Bureau as volunteers, to accept and agree to abide by the Bureau's Equal Opportunities Policies.
The Bureau recognises the importance of good equal opportunities practice in all aspects of its work, and has accordingly developed:
- consistent criteria for the employment of paid staff, and procedures to be applied in their selection, employment, training, grievance and disciplinary matters and all other conditions of service
- guidelines for the recruitment of volunteers and Management Committee members and for the referral of volunteers to user agencies, in order to promote equality of opportunity.
Camden Volunteer Bureau recognises that the achievement of equal opportunities is a long process requiring commitment, proper monitoring and the development of written policies and practices. We commit ourselves to regular monitoring and review of these policies to ensure that equal opportunities objectives are being achieved; in particular we aim to monitor who are the users of our services and facilities, and to adopt approaches specifically designed to reach disadvantaged sections of the community. |