STATEMENT OF INTENT.

Haggerston Estate Tenants Association and Haggerston Community Centre is positively committed to oppose all direct and indirect discrimination in it’s employment and provision of services. Haggerston Estate Tenants Association/Haggerston Community Centre will seek to implement a program of positive action to make this policy fully effective. Our aim is to ensure that no applicants for jobs or employees or services users receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, sex, marital status, ethnic or national origins, by being lesbian or gay, age, disability, education, religious belief, political belief, Trade Union activity, dependency and unrelated criminal convictions.

CENTRE USER

The purpose of this document is to ensure that all times the community centre is aware of and reflects, the diverse nature of the community in which it is based, and also works to combat discrimination in the areas highlighted.

It is essential that care and attention be taken to ensure that al members of the community feel valued and included in all aspects of the centre and that the positive values and benefits of having a mufti-cultural ,multi-racial community be promoted. To make this policy effective the community centre must embrace the following basic principles as foundation upon which to build.

1)The community centre should be made available as a resource to all sections of the community without discrimination. Care must be taken to ensure that information regarding activities are freely available in as many relevant languages as possible, also care must be taken to ensure that typeface is of a large enough type that it be read by people with visual disabilities without too much difficulty. Care must also be taken to ensure as much information as possible is made accessible to people with hearing disabilities via talking newspapers.

2)All management bodies should reflect the diversity of the community and users of the centre.

3)Any person who infringes the centre’s E.O.P by making racist, sexist, hetrosexist or other derogatory or offensive remarks will be strongly challenged and the policy explained.

Any person who deliberately continues to make offensive remarks will eventually be denied access to and use of the centre facilities.

4)Copies of the centre’s E.O.P as well as notices declaring the basic points concerning centre user should be prominently display throughout the building.

5)The building is to be checked as regards access and all possible done to ensure the building is fully accessible to all people with disabilities

6)The composition of all management bodies and employee will be monitored. As regards monitoring centre users it is felt that current methods are impartial and if user is to be monitored guidance is sought from the London Brought of Hackney as to a practical and efficient method of doing this.