A workplace diversity programme by an LGBTQ+ lobby group has been rejected by Ards and North Down Council.
A report by council officers on Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme and Workplace Equality Index, was noted at the council’s monthly Corporate Committee, but was not adopted after the DUP, UUP and a unionist independent blocked it.
The programme was voted down by nine unionist votes against seven votes from Alliance, the Greens, and two independents.
