Equality & Diversity Policy

Earlier this year, we invited tenants to take part in in the review of our Equality & Diversity Policy.  This review is now complete, and the updated policy can be found on our Policies page on elha.com.

Equality & Diversity Policy

We also developed an Equalities & Human Rights Strategy, which formed part of the policy review.

Equality & Human Rights Strategy

We are now required by the Scottish Housing Regulator to securely collect data from tenants, staff and Committee Members about protected characteristics* and use this to inform our services.  If we know that a significant percentage of our tenants have a specific protected characteristic, we will want to consider how we can shape our services to help to meet their needs. 

In light of these new requirements, we launched the Equalities Data Collection tool in My Home – a very obvious purple bar across the screen.  The data we collect is anonymised, so while we don’t know which of our tenants a record corresponds to, we know what percentage of our tenants have a protected characteristic. 

We would like to thank the 60% of tenants who have now completed this form.

* The Equality Act 2010 specifies nine protected characteristic  which are grounds on which discrimination is prohibited in law. Claims of discrimination cannot be made on any grounds other than:

• age
• disability
• gender reassignment
• marriage and civil partnership
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex
• sexual orientation

If you haven’t filled in the form yet, you can do this by popping into your My Home account and clicking on the button in the purple bar.

My Home