nevip
welfare rights adviser, sefton metropolitan borough council, liverpool.
Member since 22nd Jan 2004
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RE: Religion and sexuality
Fri 28-Nov-08 09:19 AM |
Our team has just embarked on a 6 month equalities and diversity monitoring project. This involves ticking a series of boxes on a page of A4 on topics such as religion, race/nationality, sexuality, disabilty, employment status, gender and gender assignment. It is all done anonymously: no names on the forms, for example.
We can either go through the form with the client at the end of the interview or, if like me you would rather be b------d before you would ask a pensioner couple (in for a quick benefit check, say) their sexual orientation, can give them the forms to take home, complete (partially, fully or not at all) and return in a pre-paid envelope, stressing complete confidentiality, etc, etc.
This is going to become a lot more prevalent as this is government led and public and local authotities will certainly not be able to avoid it.
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