The Public Sector Equality Duty Composite Report 2025
Contents
- The Public Sector Equality Duty Composite Report 2025
- NLC Equality Strategy 2019-2024
- Governance
- Fairer Scotland Duty
- Equality in the Council's Procurement Function
- Education
- North Lanarkshire Licensing Board
- NLC Employment
- NLC Equality Outcomes 2021-2025 Progress Report
- Progress 2021-25 Outcomes 1 to 3
- Progress 2021-25 Outcomes 4 to 6
- Progress 2021-25 Outcomes 7 to 9
- NLC Equality Outcomes 2025-2029
- NLC Equality Outcomes 2025-29 - Outcomes 1 to 3
- NLC Equality Outcomes 2025-29 - Outcomes 4 to 6
- NLC Equality Outcomes 2025-29 - Outcomes 7 to 10
- Next Steps
- NLC Employment Information
- NLC Employment Information - Sex
- NLC Employment Information - Disability
- NLC Employment Information - Ethnicity
- NLC Employment Information - Age
- NLC Employment Information - Sexual Orientation
- NLC Employment Information - Gender Reassignment
- NLC Employment Information - Religion and Belief
- NLC Employment Information - Marriage and Civil Partnership
- NLC Employment Information - Pregnancy and Maternity
- Occupational Segregation – Grades and Occupations – sex, disability and ethnicity
- NLC Equal Pay Statement
Equality in the Council's Procurement Function
A PSED (Specific Duty) requires the council to consider equality matters in award criteria within our procurement function. This Duty features in both our contract strategy development and within tender evaluation criteria.
The Council’s Annual Procurement Report 2023/24 includes performance indicators that demonstrates the Council’s procurement activity:
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number of unique Contractors awarded a Contract, and the percentage of them who are SME;
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the proportion of the aggregate Contract Value (from all Contracts Awarded) that is with SMEs;
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all Regulated Procurements encourage Contractors to pay the real living wage;
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all Regulated Procurements seek Contractors to respond to questions on Fair Work First (this is generally a weighted criteria in Qualitative Assessment); and
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capture of community benefits where practicable. To advance the application of the Equality Duty and drive greater outcomes from procurement activity, the Procurement Team will work with the Equalities Team to consider how to integrate objectives for Equality Duty into Procurement activity.
Case Study – Wholelife Family Support
In financial year 2023/24, the council undertook a procurement to establish a contract for “Wholelife Family Support”. This contract was awarded to Barnardos for £4M. The procurement involved people with lived experience in the contract strategy and specification development, furthermore in the tender evaluation process.
Previously Family Support was available where they met social work criteria or were fortunate enough to have a voluntary sector provider in their area, the criteria of both being quite specific. The ethos of commissioning the wholelife family support service was to create equity of access across North Lanarkshire and breakdown barriers.
The equality and diversity criteria required that the Service would be available, without barriers, to families who resided within North Lanarkshire regardless of: age; disability; gender re-assignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief or non-belief; sex; sexual orientation; and challenge or difficulty experienced.
This Procurement complied with the council’s standard practice for all Regulated Procurements, which required:
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The terms and conditions mandate the requirement for “Prompt Payment”;
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Scored evaluation questions included the Contractor to provide Community Benefits and outline their Fair Work Approach; and
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Additional feedback sought was the Contractor’s position on Payment of the Living Wage and Accreditation Status.
