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Equality
Promoting Equality
As an all island body, safefood is fully committed to observing equal opportunity legislation in the island of Ireland not only as our duty, but as a natural expression of the safefood ethos.
As part of our legal duty, we have different policies to meet the different obligations under the different jurisdictional legislation. We would welcome any comments on any aspect of our equality policies.
safefood will make all reports available in large print and Irish on request, and will consider requests for other formats or translation into other languages.
safefood Equality Policy
safefood has developed several policies to meet our legal duties and to promote the ethos of equality within the Republic of Ireland. Our Equality Policy can be downloaded and all other policies are available on request.
Download a full copy of our Equality Policy
For further information on any of safefood’s Equality Policies, please contact our Corporate Operations Directorate.
safefood Equality Scheme
safefood’s Equality Scheme (as required by S75 of the Northern Ireland Act) is designed to ensure we actively promote equal opportunities and good relations within our organisation, and in our dealings with other parties and individuals in Northern Ireland. The safefood Equality Scheme details how we propose to fulfill their obligations. You can download a full copy or a summary below.
Annual Progress Report to the Equality Commission
Every year safefood is required to produce a progress report for the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland describing what the organisation has done to promote equality in line with its statutory duty under section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. These are public documents which have been prepared by safefood using the Equality Commission’s template. Copies are available on request, or may be downloaded below.
Completed Equality Consultations
From time to time, safefood, in order to meet its commitments to equality in Northern Ireland engages in consultation with various stakeholders on aspects of its policy making. Consultations and responses can be accessed by clicking on the link below.
Section 75 policy screening
Education
Communications Strategy