Equality and Human Rights
As Scotland’s environment protection agency, we need to understand and support the rich mix of communities, cultures, and experiences of the people we work with and serve.
SEPA’s vision of Equality and Human Rights is to create an inclusive workplace culture where everyone feels able to thrive, is supported, valued and recognised for their contributions to protect and improve Scotland’s environment. We are an organisation where our customers experience fairness, dignity and respect in their interactions with us and where our decisions and services proactively eliminate inequality, advance equality of opportunity, and uphold human rights.
When we embrace what makes us different and celebrate what brings us together, we all benefit. This is what enables us to better deliver against our purpose: to protect and improve the environment in ways that, as far as possible, also create health and well-being benefits and sustainable economic growth.
Our SEPA 2026–2030 Equality Outcomes aim to enable SEPA to better fulfil the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) set out in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 by addressing inequalities for people who share protected characteristics and advancing equality and human rights.
Our Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Report 2025 shows the high value we place on diversity in our workforce. It also highlights progress against the four equality outcomes we set in 2022.
Our People Information Report 2025 provides related workforce data.
Publications
SEPA 2026–2030 Equality Outcomes
Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessments (EqHRIA)
Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Report 2025 HTML version
Equality Mainstreaming and Outcomes Report 2025 MS Word document, 5.5 MB
People Information Report 2025 MS Word document, 3.1 MB
Help and assistance
If you have any questions about equality in SEPA or require any of these publications in an alternative format, please contact us.