EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

FVHA is Equal Opportunities organisation.

The association will follow and implement the guidelines of the Housing Corporation circular HC02/90 "Promotion of Racial Equality" and will comply with the law as set out in the Race Relations Act 1976 and Sex Discrimination Act 1975. The association has adopted the Race Relations Code of Practice in Rented Housing.

As an employer and in the provision of its Housing Management service, affording access to its accommodation and deciding allocations of tenancies, the Association will abide by its legal obligations. No person or group of persons applying for housing, or for a job, or for contracts with the association, will be treated less favourably than any other person or group of persons because of their race, colour, ethnic or national origin or because of their age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or marital status.

To enable the Association to assess whether it is achieving its equal opportunities objectives, it monitors the ethnic origin of applicants and those to be rehoused together with the standard of accommodation offered.

In hiring contractors and other agencies to work for it, the association will be mindful of its commitment to equality of opportunity. It will expect contractors to act in accordance with this statement.

In the composition and operation of its Board of Management, the association will be mindful of its commitment to equal opportunity.

In addition, the Association will investigate complaints of discrimination and will also take positive action to combat racial or any other form of harassment by or to its tenants. Such harassment is a breach of the Tenancy Agreement.