To facilitate equal opportunities employment practices and support for diversity in the labour market through exercising the existing discretionary powers of the city authority.

• To use the existing powers of the city as a contractor through the inclusion of non-discrimination clauses in local contracts, 
• To set up a certification procedure for local firms, shops and local professional entities who are committed to challenging racism and willing to accept the implementation of the local mechanisms for dealing with complaints about discrimination,
• To establish a micro-credit, sponsorship and mentoring programme, in partnership with businesses, to support economically viable activities developed by discriminated groups,
• To set up a partnership with businesses interested in supporting the city authority’s anti-racist policies and in promoting diversity as an economic strategy and a commercial asset,
• To support, in association with professional bodies and trade unions, the development of relevant learning and development programmes aimed at enabling employees to deliver culturally sensitive and appropriate services,
• To make licenses (e.g. to serve alcohol) conditioned on non-discriminatory practices of equal access and perform tests (or audits) to check whether places of entertainment follow a non-discriminatory practice in order to ensure equal access to places of entertainment.