In May 2002 Torbay Council's Equality Action Group was formed. The group consists of equality champions, business unit representatives and elected members.

The purpose of this group:

• Responsibility of champions to ensure the strategic integration and enforcement of equality compliance
• To build relations with the community in Torbay and other organisations
• Advice to business units on equality issues within department
• Record and maintain impact assessments
• Monitor and review corporate equality action plan
• Monitor individual business units equality action plan to update progress.
• Agree corporate approach and discuss issues such as: Issues raised by the community, including discriminatory incidents; the progress in effective integration of the Equality and Inclusion Policy and Scheme; best practice; analysis of monitoring statistics.

Group Members

Chair: Caroline Taylor, Dir of Communications & Customer Services, Equality Lead for Torbay Council.

Member Representative: Cllr Louisa Aiton

Champions: Martin Gould (Audit & Efficiency), Sue Cheriton (Cultural Services), Richard Thorpe (FInance), Simon Sherbersky (Housing), Clare Tanner (Human Resources), Margaret Dennison (Learning & Resources and Social Inclusion), Bill Norman (Legal Support & Democratic Services), Ian Knee (Performance, Policy & Communications)

Group Representatives: Patsy Mellor (Customer First),Emma Billingham (Customer First) Sally Bullingham-Taylor (Safer Communities Andy Philips (Cultural Services), Andy Young (Transport - Environment Services), Claire Truscott (Housing - Supporting People),Sabrina Finch-Nowell (Housing) Peter Surcombe (Comms and PR) Sam Partridge (Estates),  Paul Hope (Children's Services) Jo Sandbrook (Human Resources), Carly Wedderburn (Property and Procurement) Hannah Toms (Community Engagement, Performance, Policy & Communications), Linda Goss (Torbay Development Agency)

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