The Equality Act 2010 sets out the 9 personal characteristics that are protected by the law: gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, part time status, age, religion or belief.
Healthwatch Southampton is committed to the policy of equal treatment of all employees,
volunteers, applicants and the public.
As a public body Healthwatch Southampton have to monitor our work with regard to these protected characteristics and to that aim need to collect them.
This information will be used solely to collect Protected Charteristics statistics for our report that is produced for the Executive Committee annually. This is to insure that our Equal Opportunities policy is working.
