We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and service delivery across the whole organisation, and it is our policy to ensure that all service users, job applicants and employees are treated fairly and with care. We recognise that people can experience disadvantage and discrimination for many reasons, and fully support the provisions of current legislation to remove these barriers. We aim to develop good policy and practice to ensure effective implementation of anti-discriminatory processes by the Service. 

Our Equality Schemes set out how we intend to promote equality. The Disability, Race and Gender Equality Schemes are reviewed annually. We aim to publish a Single Equality Scheme (incorporating gender, race, age, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief) by mid 2011. 

If further information is required on our Equality Schemes, contact the Human Resources team via people@hifrs.org. Other formats of our Equality Schemes can be made available by request.