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    • FOI request (FOIR-149453944)

      Gender-neutral terms

      Requested Thu 10 October 2019
      Responded Thu 17 October 2019

      Re: Freedom of Information Request – replacement of the words including man, men, father, dad, mankind and other male-related words. 

       

      I wish to submit the following freedom of information requests: 

       

      1) Please provide me details of places, including public buildings, meeting rooms etc that have replaced, or plan to replace the words: man, men, father, dad, mankind and other male-related words with gender-neutral terms?  

       

      2) Please provide me with details of the costs of making these changes?

       

      3) Please provide me details of any council guidance on the replacement of the words man, men, father, dad, mankind and other male-related words and their replacement with gender-neutral terms?

       

      4) Please provide with an example of a council report or publication that has replaced the words man, men, father, dad, mankind and other male-related words with a gender-neutral term?

       

      5) Please provide me with details about the amount of money you authority has spent on combatting domestic abuse over each of the last 5 complete financial years, including money spent on shelters/refuges. I would like this broken down by sex?

       

      6) Please provide me with details about any initiatives that have been launched to reduce male suicide over the last three years?  

       

      7) Please provide me with details about any initiatives that have been launched to reduce female suicide over the last three years?  

       

      8) Please provide me with details of events held by your council, in the last three years that promote positive male role models, fatherhood and marriage?    


      Response

      Hastings Borough Council holds no information in respect of this request.

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