Page 9 - Anti-Racism Pocketbook for Schools and Academies

Here are some tips to help create a more diverse workplace:

• Discuss diversity with your employees and outline the benefits of a
diverse workplace.

• Identify and address any bias when it comes to the recruitment
process. Make hiring managers aware of the qualities and benefits

applicants of varying backgrounds can bring to the company and
ensure they are allowing for an inclusive/fair hiring process.

• Let applicants know that you are an EDI employer.

• Value the individual skills that employees bring and make sure to

utilise these strengths to help broaden your market and grow your
company.

• Allow for flexible work options and provide the opportunity for

parental leave for all parents.

• Create and implement your own Workplace Diversity Plan for
employees to become familiar with practising diversity and

inclusiveness within the workplace.

Although the 2021 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report that
was provided by independent council asserted that there was little

evidence of institutional racism in the UK, it is clear that racism exists by
looking at these statistics:

• Black Caribbean and Mixed White/Black Caribbean children have

rates of permanent exclusion about three times that of the pupil
population as a whole

• Rates of prosecution and sentencing for Black people are three
times higher than for White people, 18 per thousand population
compared with six per thousand population for White people

• Black women are four times more likely than white women to die in

pregnancy or childbirth in the UK, and women from Asian ethnic
backgrounds face twice the risk

Institutional racism is not ‘a perception’ as Munira Mirza, the director of
the Number 10 Policy Unit, described it. It is a reality that all ethnically
diverse individuals face every day.

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