Birmingham City Council is consulting on their equality objectives to ensure they reflect the equality issues that matter most to residents, community organisations and stakeholders in Birmingham.
As part of their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 Public Sector Equality Duty (a law that helps councils and other public services treat everyone fairly, reduce unfair discrimination, and give all people equal chances to take part in community life), they want to make sure the equality objectives reflect the priorities and experiences of people across Birmingham.
Birmingham City Council want to hear from residents, community organisations, faith and religious groups and stakeholders about whether their current objectives are the right priorities, what actions the council should take, and how success should be measured.
As part of the online consultation, they will ask you to tell them if you think:
- the existing equality objectives are still relevant
- they should change
- there is anything else you want to see reflected in the objectives, and,
- if there are others you would like to see included.
Take a look at the current Public Sector Equality Duty Report (2025-2026) to see how your feedback could help the council’s future plans and actions.
The survey can be found here: Priorities For a Fairer Birmingham – Help Us Develop Our Equality Objectives – Birmingham City Council – Citizen Space
The consultation is open until the end of December 2026. However please don’t wait until then to get involved and give your views!
Birmingham City Council are also running two sessions for citizens and community organisation representatives.
To attend these – please register at the link below: Please note you only need to attend one meeting.
Citizen meetings:
10th November from 1pm – 2.30pm – register here
9th December from 4pm -5.30pm – register here
Community organisation meetings:
7th December 12pm – 1.30pm – register here
17th December 3pm – 4.30pm – register here
If you are a representative from a protected characteristic group and would like Birmingham City Council to attend one of your events – please do contact us at: getinvolved@birmingham.gov.uk