Equalities

At Keniston, we believe that treating everybody fairly is of the utmost importance. There are many ways in which discrimination can take place all of which are essential to get right at Keniston. However in housing, dealing with race equality is of particular importance. Our regulators, the Housing Corporation, have a particular focus on this area and keep a close regulatory eye on us.

Keniston’s Equality and Diversity Policy spells out how we intend to ensure fair treatment in the organisation. If you would like a copy of this policy please email a request to us via the “contact us” page.

We have a Racial Harassment policy which sets out how we respond to reports of this kind of crime.

We monitor the ethnic breakdown of our new tenants, existing tenants, staff and management committee as we believe that these should broadly reflect the ethnic make up of the localities where our properties are.

We also have an annual strategy where we set out particular initiatives or tasks to improve in the area of equalities.

This year we have asked an external consultant to review the way we recruit staff, to ensure that there are no discriminatory practices. We are pleased that the report did not find any such practices and made suggestions for some minor changes in the way that we recruit.

If you have any comments about the way we do things in terms of equalities, please email Nevil Osborne, Director, in the first instance - nevilosborne@kenistonha.co.uk