Agenda item - Chairs Communications

International Women’s Day

56.1    The Chair, Councillor Daniel, stated that she wanted to start with a big thank you to all the womens’ groups in the city including the council’s own women’s network for their inspirational events to celebrate women on International Women’s Day.

            LGBT History Month

56.2    The city had had another successful LGBT History month and the council with its partners in the public and community and voluntary sector would be running the city’s gender pronoun awareness campaign, supporting International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, a moment to celebrate transgender people and the courage it took to live openly and authentically, while also raising awareness around the discrimination trans people still faced.

            BME Volunteer Fair

56.3    The Chair stated that she was very pleased to announce that the council was supporting the Trust for Developing Communities who would be hosting the first BME volunteer fair in the city, solely focused on our BME communities and providing information and on the spot sign up to volunteering opportunities with a wide range of organisations including the council.

            Modern Slavery Co-Ordinator

56.4    Lastly, the Chair wanted to advise the Committee that the council had appointed a modern slavery co-ordinator who would be working across the council to ensure staff had the skills and confidence to identify and support victims to reveal and report their situation and get the support they needed.

56.5    RESOLVED – That the content of the Chair’s Communications be noted and received.