Christian Action Housing

Christian Action Housing Association is committed to ensuring and promoting equality of opportunity for all in its employment, working practices and service provision. The Association recognises that it has an important role in allowing people to fulfil their potential, both as individuals and as part of their community or workplace, and believes that the different qualities of the people who make up the community or workplace add value to society as a whole and to the Association in particular. We want people to live happily in their homes, free from harassment and prejudice.

To support this commitment the Association has adopted a Diversity and Equality Policy that aims:

• To ensure that all staff, tenants, local communities and contractors receive fair treatment and do not treat others less favourably because of sex, marital status, trans-gender status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, culture, religion, disability or age.

It is our aim to:

• Ensure that as a landlord our services are accessible, responsive and sensitive to the needs of our existing and future customers and as an employer, we encourage and support the recruitment of people from as wide a range as possible of diverse backgrounds; this also applies to our role as a purchaser of goods and services
• Not tolerate any unfair or unlawful discrimination to any group or individual
• Take action against all forms of domestic abuse and hate incidents where our tenants are victims or perpetrators and offer support to the victims
• Seek to ensure equality of opportunity in staff recruitment, retention and development regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religious belief, absence of belief, non belief, sexual orientation or any other factor that may cause disadvantage.
• Have a Board membership that reflects the communities we serve
• Consult, engage and be aware of the views of all the communities we serve
• Develop and maintain wide partnerships to ensure the needs of all the communities served by Christian Action are responded to

We will meet these aims through the following objectives:

• Provide leadership in the pursuit of diversity and equality
• Ensure that all sections of the community requiring our services have equal access to them
• Develop a culture which recognises diversity and values all individuals and opposes discriminatory practices
• Demonstrate our commitment through good practice in mainstreaming diversity through the design and delivery of our services
• Ensure that our partners, stakeholders and others who we work with also share our vision and values, including those who receive funding from us; and
• Ensure equality of opportunity for access to employment with our organisation
• Record, monitor and evaluate the diversity of our tenant and resident groups, contractors and consultants
• Include an equality and diversity component in the personal development planning process for Board directors and senior management team.
• Publicise our commitment to ensuring and promoting diversity and equality