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ABOUT US
POLICIES
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES POLICY
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES POLICY
Swansea Print Workshop is committed to equal opportunities policy and practice and will ensure that all employees and service users, both actual and potential, are treated equally and as individuals regardless of age, disability, ethnic or national origin, gender, or marital status, political belief, race, religion or sexual orientation.
In implementing the policy, Swansea Print Workshop will take account of existing legislation: the Race Relations Act 1976, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Welsh Language Act 1993 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
This equal opportunities policy will be implemented across all aspects of the
organisation’s work.
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the appointment of members to its Board of Management
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the appointment of staff, their conditions of service and employment procedures
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all dealings with the public and service users
Management Committee
Swansea Print Workshop will aim to ensure that the Board of Management of the organisation is representative of the community and users which it serves. The Management Committee will be responsible for ensuring that the equal opportunities policy is properly implemented, monitored and reviewed. The members of the Management Committee will aim to undertake equal opportunities training.
Staffing / Volunteering
Swansea Print Workshop will ensure that no job applicant, employee or volunteer or intern receives less favourable than another on grounds of age, disability, ethnic origin, marital or parental status, political belief, religion, gender or sexual orientation
Swansea Print Workshop is committed to undertaking open recruitment and selection procedures and wherever possible all vacancies will be advertised and fair and equitable shortlisting and interview processes will be followed.
Employees of and volunteers working with the organisation will be informed of the equal opportunities policy and receive training on equal opportunities issues as appropriate.
Swansea Print Workshop will also ensure that the changing and developing needs of staff and volunteers are recognised and appropriate adjustments made to working conditions and/or training provided.
Swansea Print Workshop operates disciplinary, grievance or complaints procedures which all staff will be appraised of. Behaviour or actions against the spirit of and / or the spirit of the equal opportunity laws, on which this policy is based, will be considered serious disciplinary matters.
Public and Service Users
Swansea Print Workshop aims to make its services accessible to as wide a range of the public as possible and in order to achieve this will take steps to remove barriers which prevent potential participants, members and users
from having equal access to the organisation’s activities. This will include:
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ensuring that activities take place in venues and premises which are accessible to disabled people
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providing facilities for disabled people to enable them to participate fully in activities e.g. induction loop, interpreters
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ensuring that the design of the publicity material takes account of the needs of disabled people both in terms of print, format, information on access
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encouraging and enabling people from underrepresented groups to attend and participate
Swansea
Print Workshop is a not for profit
company limited by guarantee
Companies House No 4078671: 19a Clarence Street Swansea SA1 3QR
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