Public sector equality duty
Knowing our community
Knowing and understanding our community is a key part of our
approach to service improvement. Collection and analysis of
information about the equality profile of the people who use our
services and those we employ has enabled us to shape our
interventions to best meet the needs of local people and
effectively target resources.
Developing our understanding of our local community is at the
heart of our commitment to building One Tower Hamlets, providing us
with a strong foundation to demonstrate how we are meeting the
Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED). The duty was brought in under
the Equality Act 2010 and aims to ensure that public authorities
embed equality considerations into their day to day work, so that
they are able to tackle discrimination and inequality and
contribute to making society fairer.
As part of the PSED the Equality Act introduced a duty on public
authorities to publish a range of equality monitoring data by 31
January 2012, to include information relating to people who share a
‘protected characteristic’ who are:
- its employees; or
- people affected by its policies and practices (for example,
service users).
Under the Equality Act, protected characteristics are defined
as: age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity,
race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, and marriage and
civil partnership.
On this page you can find the information we hold on:
- Who accesses our services
- How satisfied they are with these services
- The performance of these services in promoting equality of
outcome
This data has been published as eight datasets, which relate to
the structure of the council and how we hold the information,
including:
- Chief Executive's Directorate
- Resources Directorate
- Children, Schools & Families Directorate
- Adults, Health & Wellbeing Directorate
- Communities, Localities & Culture Directorate
- Development & Renewal Directorate
- Corporate Complaints
- Human Resources & Workforce Development (excluding
schools)
Where services have robust monitoring information on any of
those protected characteristics, this data has been published. For
some of the characteristics, due to the relatively new requirement
to monitor, there is very little or even no data available to
publish. For example, there is currently no data on pregnancy and
maternity or gender reassignment. In addition, only one directorate
currently monitors marriage and civil partnership.
For some data sets we hold limited information about some of the
protected characteristic groups. Where we have information on a
protected characteristic recorded for fewer than 50% of service
users, we have considered that the data is not sufficiently robust
to be used or published. For a number datasets this affected the
data available on religion or belief and sexual orientation, where
the requirement to collect this data has not been as long standing
as the requirement to monitor age, disability, race and sex.
Please note that the data included in these pages may be from
slightly differing timeframes and account for slight variations in
otherwise comparable figures. Finally, most of the data has
been rounded up or down to a whole percentage for ease of
reference.
This information will be updated on an annual basis. You can
find information about the actions we will take to expand the range
of data available in coming years on the next steps page.
To assist in the interpretation of the data published here, you
can find key facts about the population of the borough on the
our population page. We have also
produced a population
profile (pdf).
Datasets in Excel format:
All datasets in pdf format: