CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 5 10^th June 2022

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR INFORM­A­TION

Title: PUB­LIC SEC­TOR EQUAL­ITY DUTY REPORT 2021: UPDATE 2022

Pre­pared By: KATE CHRISTIE, HEAD OF ORGAN­ISA­TION­AL DEVELOPMENT

Pur­pose

This paper presents the update to the Pub­lic Sec­tor Equal­ity Duty Report 2021.

Recom­mend­a­tions

That the Board note the Report.

Intro­duc­tion

1. This Pub­lic Sec­tor Equal­ity Duty (PSED) Report: Update 2022 is a reis­sue of the report pub­lished in April 2021. This Update does not serve to update on pro­gress made on Equal­ity out­comes and actions (2021 – 2024). A sep­ar­ate report detail­ing our pro­gress for the report­ing peri­od 2021 to 2024 will be issued in April 2023.

2. The report pub­lished in April 2021 met com­pli­ance of the PSED. How­ever, giv­en time con­straints and bar­ri­ers to deliv­ery caused by Cov­id and work­ing under lock­down con­di­tions, the report was ​“bare”, with no graphics/​imagery or embel­lish­ment. At the time we made the com­mit­ment to pub­lish the bare report so as to meet leg­al com­pli­ance, but to use the next 12 months to enhance and update the report.

3. One of the changes to this report is a restruc­ture of the con­tent. We have determ­ined three out­come areas: Staff and Lead­er­ship; Vis­it­ors and Com­munity; and Con­sulta­tion and Part­ner­ships. This struc­ture bet­ter aligns our equal­ity work and Equal­ity Out­comes with our organ­isa­tion­al struc­ture and remit.

4. Anoth­er change is the addi­tion of images, case stud­ies, testi­mo­ni­als, infograph­ics and hyper­links to part­ner reports and ini­ti­at­ives. We hope these addi­tions high­light what we achieved over the report­ing peri­od and will inspire our com­munity to fol­low our lead in main­stream­ing the Equal­ity Duty.

5. The Update also provides addi­tion­al evid­ence to under­line our Main­stream­ing activ­it­ies, demon­strate our pro­gress on Equal­ity Out­comes (2017 – 2020) and provide a bet­ter rationale for set­ting new Equal­ity Out­comes (2021 – 2024).

6. Finally, we have giv­en great focus to enhan­cing the access­ib­il­ity of the report, going bey­ond screen read­er com­pli­ance to improv­ing nav­ig­ab­il­ity and read­ab­il­ity through format­ting and con­tent con­sist­ency. Some examples of this include col­our coded chapters, ensur­ing PDF access­ib­il­ity, using stand­ard­ised table formats and visu­al aids (such as infograph­ics) to present inform­a­tion clearly, provid­ing a ​‘How to use this Report’ sec­tion, using hier­arch­ic­al num­ber­ing sys­tems for easy ref­er­en­cing and headings/​subheadings to break up content.

7. The report was presen­ted to Resources Com­mit­tee at its recent meet­ing. Com­mit­tee endorsed the report.

Kate Christie 2 June 2022