Equality and Diversity

We are all different. At Knowsley Housing Trust, our aim is to promote an environment that embraces this diversity and ensures that all our customers, employees, Board Members and stakeholders are treated fairly and equally.

In this section of the Internet, there are a number of douments which will explain in more detail what equality and diversity is all about, why it is important why KHT wants to develop and celebrate diversity both in and out of the workplace.

Equality and Diversity Policy

Updated and agreed by the Board in May 2006, our Equality and Diversity Policy sets out KHT’s commitment to eliminating unfair discrimination from all aspects of work and service delivery and ensures there are mechanisms in place for implementing, monitoring and co-ordinating progress towards the achievement of equality.

The aim of KHT’s policy is to:

• Identify and eliminate unlawful discrimination
• Promote equality of opportunity in all KHT activity
• Provide practical and responsive services to victims of discrimination
• Manage diversity in people through recognising and encouraging the differences within them
• Recognise that everyone is entitled to be treated with openness, integrity and respect
• Ensure full records are kept to monitor the impact of this policy

The policy sets out KHT’s commitments in the following areas:

• Provision of housing and all services to residents (Sales and lettings, tenancy management and involvement)
• Employment including recruitment promotion training and employment practice
• Governance
• Partnerships/Procurement
• Communities
• Culture