That:

a) the Equality Policy and associated appendices are approved for publication.

To not produce or update the Council’s Equality Policy. This is not recommended. There is no legal obligation to produce an equality policy, so we have the option not to publish (although it is considered good practice to have a policy in place). However it is a statutory requirement that we publish at least one Equality Objective so, in the absence of an equality policy, we would have to identify another method of publishing our objectives.