• The access to Signpost housing, the quality of accommodation offered to people in need and in the provisions of maintenance and other related services to tenants. This includes the protection of tenants' rights in relation to racial and other forms of harassment;
  
  
• Recruitment and selection procedures, and ensuring equality of opportunity for all job applicants and prospective applicants;
  
  
• The provision of training and development opportunities on an equitable basis so that all employees are promoted and treated fairly on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities;
  
  
• The way the Association designs and develops new housing and in the practices of its contractors and consultants;
  
  
• The access provided to individuals for becoming shareholders and Board Members of the organisations in the Signpost Housing for people targeted by this policy.

Signpost Housing will seek to ensure that nobody receives less favourable treatment from the Member Companies on the grounds of their sex, marital status, race, colour, creed, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, or economic status.

To fulfil this commitment, Signpost Housing will take action to remove from all its activities, institutional discrimination, based on race, sex and disability and will ensure the promotion of equal opportunities is at the heart of the Association's work.

This policy and the commitment to promoting equal opportunities apply to all organisations in the Signpost Housing. Signpost Housing will also promote equal opportunities to organisations it works with.