Equality and diversity

Aragon Housing Association has a responsibility to ensure that equality of opportunity and effective management of diversity are at the core of its business and generate targets to deliver services that are both responsive to the needs of communities and individuals and promote social inclusion. We are committed to taking positive steps to ensure that equality of opportunity and effective management of diversity are reflected in all of our activities by:

• Developing services that achieve equality and diversity in all areas.
• Having a diverse workforce that reflects the local population.
• Understanding how valuing diversity can improve our ability to deliver better services and reduce disadvantage.
• Actively consulting with all our customers and partners in order to achieve our targets.
• Actively consulting with different individuals, communities and partners to ensure our services are responsive and reflect the diversity of need.
• Listening to our customers and involving them in the development of services that recognise and value diversity.
• Providing comprehensive support to victims of racial harassment and other forms of discrimination and working with other agencies to deal with the perpetrators of harassment.
• Providing all employees with the training and development they need to enable them to achieve organisational targets.
• Providing an open, supportive environment where all employees have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Aragon HA aims to follow the principles set out in the Race Equality Code of Practice for Housing Associations.

In order to assess the success of the equality and diversity policy, monitoring systems are essential. We will, in confidence, gather information on ethnic origin, gender, age and disability from all Board members, tenant representatives, staff and all applicants applying for accommodation and employment. Regular reports will be made to the Board.