Our Commitment to Equality

 

Diversity

London Probation Trust  is committed to promoting Equality in all that we do.  We value diversity and seek to accommodate a diversity of needs and characteristics in our provision of services. 

 

This includes how we interact with our colleagues, offenders and members of the public.

 

London Probation Trust  is committed to upholding the new Public Sector Duty, as part of the Equality Act (2010), which came into force on 5 April 2011.

 

This obliges all agencies who provide services to the public to:

 

  • Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act

 

  • Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not

 

  • Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.

 

 

We have developed a Single Equality Scheme, which will be incorporated into the forthcoming London Probation Trust Business Plan, and sets out how we seek to do this.  LPT Single Equality Scheme.


We have also published Equality Data across a range of characteristics to demonstrate how we are meeting our Public Sector Duties.  LPT Equalities Monitoring Report.

 

 

Unique Challenges

 

London is unique and faces challenges which are more prominent than in most other parts of the country.  In response we have developed the following specialist resources:

 

  • Central Extremism Unit to help manage offenders with radical or extremist views 

 

  • Foreign Nationals Unit to assist with the additional challenges and complications of nearly 9,000 foreign national offenders such as language barriers, immigration conditions, and immigration status

 

  • Diversity Awareness and Prejudice Pack (DAPP), a comprehensive toolkit to assist in challenging the prejudicial attitudes of offenders who commit or are at risk of committing Hate Crimes

 

  • Serious Group Offending portfolio– working in partnership with other agencies and the voluntary and community sector to target gang violence.