Our Commitment to Equality
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.
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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.