Equality and diversity

We want all of our citizens to be able to use our services and join in with the life and work of the city. We want to make sure no one loses out because of who they are or the life choices they make. Equality is about everyone having access to

  • services
  • jobs
  • housing
  • leisure and culture.

Read our equality and diversity framework - opens in a new window

Download our equality and diversity framework and other documents PDFs

Download our progress reports PDFs

Download the 2023 Interim progress report on the equality and diversity framework 2021-2025 PDF

Testing our services

Before we make decisions about our services, we look at evidence to see if there could be any good or bad effects on

  • people’s equality and human rights
  • sustainability and the environment.

We then think about how to improve the service. This is called an impact assessment. The tool we use is called an integrated impact assessment (IIA). View our impact assessments.

External resources

Contact Community Planning

0131 200 2000, option "0"