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Foreword from the Director of Social Services, Chair of the Equality and Diversity Officer Working Group

Richard Jones,
Director of
Social Services

As Director of Lancashire County Council's Social Services Directorate and a member of the County Management Board I am particularly committed to making sure we deliver equality of opportunity. At the heart of our work is respect for the individual, and acknowledging, valuing and responding appropriately to differences.

This race equality scheme will build on the many initiatives taking place within the County Council. The scheme is a working document and will be reviewed and revised regularly. We will report every year on the progress we have made, and we will review the whole scheme in 2005.

At the County Council we believe race equality is one vitally important strand of our overall work on equalities. We are currently consulting on and developing an equality and diversity framework that will take in other strands including age, disability, faith, gender and sexual orientation. The starting point has been the need to develop a vision and objectives on equalities issues and we are currently consulting on what these should be. We will then build performance measures around the objectives so that we can measure and report on the progress we make.