Equal Brighton & Hove (EBH) promotes recognising the value of diversity throughout the partnership.

EBH has identified groups that tend to experience lower levels of opportunity in employment. The groups form the focus for the partners' activities.

The Core Team encourages and works alongside partners to ensure equality issues are actively considered through all aspects of the projects. This is in line with the legal duties that apply to most public authorities for disability, ethnic origin and gender.

EBH is innovative in encouraging our partners to work as if the duties apply to all participants. We will do this by: identifying relevant equality issues; assessing policies and practices; offering support and advice, and; learning from what worked well and what did not.

Barriers to equality exist at different levels; the individual - their personal situation and their employability; employers - how committed and effective they are at attracting and retaining a diverse workforce.

EBH will encourage projects to challenge their assumptions about how they work. We will assess how effective they have been in supporting beneficiaries by monitoring and evaluation of programme developers.

The City of Brighton and Hove hosts a broad and complex range of structures that aim to encourage social and economic participation in public life. These link with regional and national organisations and structures working with similar aims. EBH will look at the effectiveness of these structures in supporting and delivering sustainable improvements in equality of opportunity for all residents.

• ECOTEC have produced a Good Practice Guide on Equal Opportunities
• eb4U have produced an Equalities Resource Pack