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Departmental Strategic Objective

As part of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007, the Government published a range of Public Service Agreements (PSAs) which set out its plans for the period 2008-2011.

PSAs represent the Government's key priorities for the spending period. The Government Equalities Office is the lead Department for the Equalities PSA. Contributing Departments include Communities and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Department for Work and Pensions, although all Departments have a role to play. Overview

While PSAs are set across Government, each Department has its own Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs) setting out the totality of its own business. For more information about PSAs and DSOs, please go here.

Given its main focus in leading delivery of the Equality PSA, the DSO for the Government Equalities Office reflects the wording of the PSA and is supported by some of the same indicators. The Government Equalities Office’s DSO is as follows.

To address the disadvantage that individuals experience because of their gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief by:

Ensuring progress against the Ministers for Women Priorities (supporting families, tackling violence against women and improving the way we deal with women who commit crimes, and empowering black and minority ethnic women)
Developing and supporting delivery of the Government’s equality strategy (including simplifying and strengthening equality law devising and using a framework for measuring progress towards a more equal society)
Reducing the gender pay gap
Tackling barriers which that limit people’s choice and control in their lives
Narrowing gaps in civic participation
Narrowing gaps in employment-based discrimination and
Narrowing gaps in perceptions of unfair treatment at work, college or school, and when using health services and public transport

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