Accessibility, Equality and Diversity
 Welcome to the equality and diversity section of Vale Royal Borough Council's website. The aim of this section is to give you quick access to key information about the Council's equality work, which will create opportunities for everyone in the borough to have their voices heard, particularly potentially excluded groups.
Vale Royal Borough Council wishes to play its part in helping develop Vale Royal as a cohesive community in which difference is valued and celebrated. It is working towards a just society, free from discrimination and harassment, by embedding its commitment to equality and diversity in all its policies, procedures, practices and external relationships.
Building upon the Council's Vision "Vale Royal – a great place to be", the Council reviewed its Equal Opportunities Policy and approved a new Equality and Diversity Policy in July 2004.
The policy will help the Council deliver its mission statement: "To promote Vale Royal as a great place in which to live, work and visit by tackling disadvantage, aiming for total accessibility, encouraging economic growth and achieving high performance as an organisation by working in partnership."
Civil Partnerships
The Civil Partnerships Act came into force on 5 December 2005. This allows same sex couples to have legal recognition of their partnership. This means that Civil Partners will enjoy equal treatment in a wide range of legal matters with married couples including: Tax, Benefits, Most State and Occupational Pension Benefits, Income related benefits, credits, child support, tenancy, immigration and much more.
The contact in Cheshire for Civil Partnerships is:
Keith Flanigan, Superintendent Registrar
Chester Register Office
Goldsmith House, Goss Street, Chester, CH1 2BG
Tel: 01244 602668
Email: chesterregisteroffice@cheshire.gov.uk
Other sources of information include:
Equality in Regeneration
The Commission for Racial Equality are asking for people who are involved in or affected by regeneration to contribute to the research. They are specifically interested in examples of physical regeneration projects which people feel have been successful or problematic in terms of race equality.
If you would like to provide information for this investigation, please go to the Commission for Racial Equality website. For anyone who does not have access to the Internet, please contact Angela Doe on 01606 867545.
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