Barking and Dagenham Council is committed to promoting fairness, inclusion, and equality for everyone in our community. To help us achieve this, we collect information about people’s protected characteristics.
Under the Equality Act 2010, the Council has a legal duty to monitor and consider how our policies and services affect people with protected characteristics.
This information is used to:
• Meet our legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010.
• Monitor how different groups access and experience our services.
• Identify and address any barriers or inequalities.
• Ensure our policies and decisions promote equality and meet the needs of all communities.
All equalities data is treated as confidential and sensitive (Special Category Data under the Data Protection Act 2018). It is collected for monitoring purposes only and will not be used to identify you.
