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Background:
In accordance with Section 75 and Schedule 9 of the Northern
Ireland Act 1998, which requires public authorities to send
an Equality Scheme to the Equality
Commission for Northern Ireland, the Health Promotion
Agency has drawn up its Equality Scheme. This outlines how
the Agency intends to carry out its new duties to promote
equality between:
- persons of
different religious belief, political opinion, racial group,
age, marital status or sexual orientation;
- men and women
generally;
- persons with
or without a disability
- persons with
or without dependants.
The Agency is
committed to ensuring that all necessary resources are made
available (in terms of people, time and money) to aid the
effective promotion of equality of opportunity and good relations
in all its policies and practices.
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Download
Click Here
to download the HPA's Equality Scheme as a PDF(96kb).
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download a PDF (portable document file), you will need
to have installed a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click
on this link
to download a free copy of this software.
Other
formats:
The
plain english summary of the HPA's equality scheme has
also been produced in Cantonese, Hindi, Irish and Ulster
Scots. It is also available in Braille and on audio
cassette. Further information on these alternative formats
will be available soon.
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For
further information contact:
Les McLean
Director of Corporate Services and Organisational Development
Health Promotion Agency
18 Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
BT2 8HS
Tel: 028 9031 1611
Fax: 028 9031 1711
Email: l.mclean@hpani.org.uk |
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