Equalities

Arts Council of Wales is committed to implementing a policy which promotes equality of access to a full range of arts events for people of all ages, abilities, cultures and communities.

Our Equal Opportunities Policy and Code of Best Practice set out our over-arching commitment to ensuring that we place equality issues in the mainstream of our work and our relationships with funded bodies and other partners.

In compliance with our duty as a public body, we have published a:

Annual Equality Report 2010-11

Race Equality Scheme

Disability Equality Scheme (read also Moving Beyond – A disability strategy)

Gender Equality Scheme

Guidance for Arts Organisations

Arts Council of Wales expects those who receive grants to implement effective equal opportunities policies and use this Code of Practice for Funded Organisations as a guidance in this respect. In addition, we have produced this example of an equal opportunities policy as additional guidance for small voluntary arts organisations.

Equal Spaces provides best practice guidance for arts organisations on disability issues.

We are currently developing Race Equality Guidance which will be published in 2011/12.

Monitoring

Our Internal Equalities Monitoring Group, comprising staff from across the organisation, monitors progress in implementing our equalities work and reports directly to our Council. This includes monitoring the implementation of our Equality Impact Assessment Process.

This process aims to ensure that we consider the impact our policies my have on different people and help us address any actual or potential inequalities and therefore improve our services and employment practices. This is the assessment carried out on our Equal Opportunities Policy:

Equality Impact Screening and Assessment 2009

Other assessments can be found alongside recently created or updated policies on our website.

Each year we monitor our Disability Equality Scheme through a Disability Action Plan. Here are the most recent plans and progress reports:

Disability Action Plan for 2010-2011

Disability Action Plan 2009-2010

Report on the Disability Action Plan for 2009-10