Harassment and Racial Harassment

The Council defines harassment as "unwanted conduct which has the purpose or effect of violating the individual's dignity, or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him or her".

The Council adopts the definition of a racist incident as provided by the MacPherson Inquiry Report 1999 as:
"A racist incident is any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person".

At North West Leicestershire District Council, we take a zero tolerance approach towards perpetrators of all forms of harassment and our objective in conjunction with our policy is to be responsive to all reports of harassment, whether it is low level tolerance or a serious incident.

We will, as always, endeavour to take action where it is appropriate and treat everyone fairly and with equality.

We will endeavour to action this policy by a balanced approach of preventative and enforcement measures, including working with different agencies.Individuals who report or witness harassment will also provide us with the necessary evidence to action such claims.

Harassment and Racial Harassment Policy (Word Document, 0.1 Mb)