Gender Equality Scheme

Herefordshire Council's Gender Equality Scheme (GES) is in place as part of the fomer Gender Equality Duty, prior to the Equality Act 2010. 

The duty required all public authorities to promote gender equality and eliminate sex discrimination and discrimination against transgender people and to have a GES in place.  It also placed a legal responsibility on public authorities to demonstrate that they treat men and women fairly.  This document will work alongside the Race Equality and Disability Equality Schemes. The specific duty for the GES differed from the requirements in the Race Relations Act and Disability Discrimination Act in that all public authorities were required to comply, in the same way, with the same duties.

Herefordshire Council's GES has had the input of both NHS Herefordshire and Herefordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.