Train the Trainer

One day in-depth training on the effective delivery of equality and diversity. This workshop will enable you increase your effectiveness in designing, planning and delivering Equality and Diversity within your own and other organisations
 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Essentials

This course covers the principles of Equality and Diversity in the workplace including both awareness and responsibilities. This course explores attitudes, values and belief in a safe and fair environment taking it far beyond the legislation. We look at the business, moral and legal case for equality.

Employment Rights and Equality Bill Review

A detailed review of upcoming legislation and practical guidance on the impact these will have on employers. Ensure your business is prepared to meet the new legal obligations and manage risks associated with compliance failures. Designed to support organisations through the next wave of legal changes.

Unconscious Bias

The training is intended to alert participants to bias that could affect decisions regarding recruitment, promotion and attitudes to others in the workplace.

The programme includes flexible working initiatives and mentoring

Equality Impact Assessments

Starting at the very beginning, this course takes delegates step by step through all the key elements of the Equality Analysis process.

We will demystify the EA process, assume little or no prior learning and focus on giving delegates time to debate issues, ask questions and then put into practice what they learn.

Public Sector Equality Duty

• Understand Legal Obligations: Gain a thorough understanding of the Public Sector Equality Duty and how it applies to your organisation.
• Promote Fair Practices: Learn strategies to embed equality considerations into your day-to-day operations and long-term planning.

Equality Champions

Equality Champions (often known as Diversity Champions) are recognised as playing a central role in disseminating good practice and encouraging the promotion of equalities within organisations. Equality Champions should be formally represented on the Board of Trustees and/or Equality and Diversity Committees

EDI Advanced Course

This interactive, one-day programme is designed to provide advanced EDI practitioners with the skills and knowledge necessary to take their training and organisational initiatives to the next level. Participants will engage in a series of interactive sessions that focus on practical application, critical reflection, and collaborative learning

Micro Aggressions Training Course

This course encourages delegates to learn about micro-aggressions and what causes them to occur, explore their impact on our interactions with others and increase our awareness of strategies to manage and reduce them.

Disability Awareness

This course is suitable to people who want to increase their awareness of disability issues or gain more confidence in working with or supporting people with a disability, impairment or mental ill health. The course gives an in depth understanding of disability, impairments, mental health and the factors that can affect wellbeing

Race, Faith and Diversity

This training course deals with managing diversity in the workplace.

It is targeted at supporting staff and managers to proactively plan to meet the needs of racially diverse people.

Embedding Equality into the Curriculum

This course will help you learn more about embedding equality and diversity into both leadership and curriculum development and the competencies needed to achieve this. It provides a starting point for identifying your skills and areas for your own and others’ professional development

Transgender Awareness

Appreciating the phenomenon of gender variance and discovering how informed good practice can overcome the exclusion or suppression of gender variant people.

Aimed at helping employers to gain an understanding of Gender Variance good practice

Mental Health Awareness

The course is suitable to people who want to increase their awareness of Mental health issues or gain more confidence in working with or supporting people with mental ill health.

The course gives an in depth understanding of mental health (from a diversity viewpoint) and the factors that can affect wellbeing

Equality and Diversity in Foster Care

Children in Foster Care need to be supported to maintain their cultural identity.

This course is designed to help foster carers fully appreciate the varied backgrounds that young people originate from, the importance of the child’s journey and the impact of transition between foster placements and leaving their birth family.

LGB Awareness Training

The course introduces the Equality Act 2010 and details the Sexual orientation protected characteristic so you can learn more about what it is are and how to avoid discrimination through your behaviours, language, attitudes, conscious and unconscious bias and actions.

Courageous Conversations

Knowing what, when and how to challenge can be difficult. Within your role you will, at times, be required to challenge others' behaviour because you think it is potentially discriminatory; there are some attitudes, language and behaviours that are unacceptable: e.g. racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, disablist, ageist. This course prepares you to have those courageous conversations.

Equality and Diversity in the Workplace

This course is for all line managers at both operational and strategic levels. It will help delegates understand issues relating to discrimination, victimisation and harassment in the workplace - and the confidence to deal with them if they are alleged.

Attracting and Retaining Diverse Talent

Aimed at Senior Leaders, Hiring Managers, any staff with recruitment responsibilities who want to know how to recruit diverse talent, build a diverse talent pipeline and retain and progress this talent. Includes:

• Barriers of entry
• Sifting and shortlisting candidates fairly and without bias
• Language use: writing job descriptions, person specifications and selection criteria
• Becoming a Change Agent

EDI Training for Recruiters

Provides learning and guidance on how to recruit and select talent in an inclusive way. It will help managers to understand the nuances of recruiting for cultural fit to positively impact employee engagement and retention. Includes:

• The legal context and effective recruitment preparation to reach the widest talent pool
• Language use: writing job descriptions, person specifications and selection criteria
• Sifting and shortlisting candidates fairly and without bias
• The interview: inclusive interview skills
• Post-interview considerations

Race and Allyship

This course is aimed at Senior Leaders and employees who want an in-depth understanding of Allyship, what it means to be an Ally and actions to take. Includes:

• Allyship – What does it mean?
• The importance of an Ally
• What it means to be an Ally
• The roles Allies play
• Microaggressions
• Becoming a Change Agent

Introduction to Anti-Racism in Social and Patient Care

Understanding the concept of racism and its impact on social and patient care. Exploring the historical context of racism and its manifestations in the health/social care sector. Covers Unconscious Bias, Cultural Competence, Microaggressions, Intersectionality, Challenging Racism, Creating Inclusive Policies and Practices, Building Allies, Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

Strategies to Become an Anti-Racist Organisation

Half of Black Britons say they are just as likely to have experienced racism at work as on the street. This course will introduce you to the complex lived realities of race and ethnic diversity in British society and explore institutional racism, systemic social inequalities, and patterns of discrimination in the workplace.

How to be an Active Bystander

Being an Active Bystander means being aware when someone's behaviour is inappropriate or threatening and choosing to challenge it.

Bystander intervention training provides the techniques to challenge behaviours constructively and safely.

Meeting the Needs of Protected Groups in the Working Environment

This course aims to provide participants working within the Private and Third sector a comprehensive understanding of the Equality Act 2010 and its implications in the workplace, equip participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively meet the needs of protected groups in their working environments and foster an inclusive and diverse workplace culture that promotes equality and respects the rights of all individuals

Meeting the Needs of Protected Groups in the Education Sector

This course aims to provide people working in the education sector a comprehensive understanding of the Equality Act 2010 and its implications in the workplace, equip participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively meet the needs of protected groups in their working environments and foster an inclusive and diverse workplace culture. The approach will be tailored to the specific challenges faced within the education sector

Meeting the Needs of Protected Groups in the Public Sector

This course aims to provide participants working in Public Bodies, Police, NHS, Children's Services, and Criminal Justice Systems a comprehensive understanding of the Equality Act 2010 and its implications in the workplace, equip participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively meet the needs of protected groups in their working environments. Scenarios specific to public service settings will be incorporated.

Inclusive Recruitment, Selection, and Interviewing

This course is designed to empower recruiters and panel members with the knowledge and skills needed to create a truly inclusive and equitable recruitment process.

Participants will gain insights into dismantling bias, reaching diverse talent, sustaining a diverse workforce, and accommodating neurodiversity, cultural differences, and other protected groups.

Building Inclusive Workplaces

This course focuses on providing individual staff members who have engaged in racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or any other form of discriminatory behaviour with the necessary tools and strategies to repair their behaviour and contribute to a more inclusive work environment.

By participating in this course, employers can actively work towards repairing their organisation's reputation and fostering a culture of respect and equality.

Addressing Bullying 1:1 Session

This 1:1 course provides a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes bullying, the various forms it can take, and its potential impacts on individuals and the workplace.

It encourage delegates to critically reflect on their behaviour, communication style, and interactions with colleagues to identify any potential patterns or behaviours that may have contributed to the allegations.

Discrimination, Harassment, Victimisation, in the Workplace

As an employer, you have a duty of care towards your employees and must do all you reasonably can to ensure staff wellbeing and prevent discrimination, harassment and victimisation in the workplace.

This training event provides you with key information to help you promote engagement and inclusivity in the workplace and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to reputational damage, impact on individuals and costly tribunal claims.

How to effectively identify and address challenging workplace behaviours

Challenging and excessive behaviours can be difficult to manage. Left unaddressed, they can be damaging to a business and its employees, leading to low morale, loss of productivity, silent quitting, and increased staff turnover.

This interactive training session will provide you with skills to confidently identify challenging behaviour, recognise the impact it can have on individuals and the business and practice strategies to manage these behaviours effectively.

Unacceptable Behaviour in the workplace

The effects of unacceptable behaviour within the workplace are harmful to all concerned and potentially expensive for organisations, with real reputational risks.

Behaviours such as, direct/indirect discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and microaggressions can lead to increased levels of absence, staff turnover and lower staff morale which can reduce productivity.

Attending this event will help you to identify and address inappropriate behaviours in the workplace and understand the appropriate course of action to take. It will also help you to understand the legal aspects and employer/employee responsibilities.

Identify and address sexual harassment in the workplace

It is important that staff are safe and treated with dignity and respect at work. Sexual harassment has a significant impact on employee mental health and wellbeing. It can lead to low morale, poor productivity, increased absence, and resignation.

There are legal implications if a complaint of sexual harassment is not handled correctly. It is not only damaging for the individuals involved but can prove costly to your business in terms of finance, reputation, and employee engagement.

Bullying in the Workplace

Bullying in the workplace can have a detrimental effect on employee wellbeing, productivity, and retention.

As an employer, you have a duty of care towards your employees and must do all you reasonably can to ensure staff wellbeing and prevent bullying in the workplace.

This course will provide you with key information to help you promote engagement and inclusivity in the workplace and avoid common pitfalls that can lead to costly tribunal claims.

Reasonable adjustments

Failure to make reasonable adjustments is one of the most common forms of disability discrimination.

This training session will look at how implementing reasonable adjustments can improve employee engagement and provide a more positive staff experience in the workplace.

5Cs framework for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is not only morally right but it also has business advantages, such as increased staff engagement, retention and productivity.

This course looks at the essential aspects of equality, diversity and inclusion that all organisations need to be aware of, including the legal position and best practice for promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We share with you our 5cs framework for successful implementation of EDI into everyday practice

Courageous Conversations about Race

We believe that courageous conversations about race have the power to change things that prevent us from achieving our best outcomes.

The world has made a lot of progress when it comes to achieving racial equality, but we resist change because it's uncomfortable, leaving us all stuck.

This course is designed to help you get unstuck and begin the right conversations to realise change in your organisation, community or family/friendship groups.

Menopause Awareness

Course content

• understand what menopause is and how it affects work, home, and social life
• Learn about menopausal symptoms, triggers, and misconceptions.
• Menopause in the workplace, making reasonable adjustments.
• Identify hot tips to support colleagues.
• Guidance on how to get the menopause conversation started, normalise menopause and develop a menopause friendly workplace culture.

Understanding Domestic Violence and Abuse

Course content

• This course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of domestic violence and abuse, focusing on the legal framework surrounding domestic abuse and coercive control.
• Through interactive sessions and case studies, participants will learn how to help victims recognise and name abuse, access support services, and encourage disclosures.

Sexual Harassment Worker Protection

Course Aims to:

• ensure understanding of the new Worker Protection Bill requirements and the updated Equality Act 2010.
• equip participants with the skills to design, develop, and deliver effective training on sexual harassment prevention.
• embed a culture of respect, inclusion, and psychological safety in the workplace.

Anti-Racism and Diversity Training for Leaders

This course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to disrupt systemic inequalities.

By focusing on leadership accountability and community trust, the course provides actionable strategies to create equitable environments that benefit all, particularly those from ethnically diverse backgrounds, women, disabled people, and other protected groups.

Supporting Ethnically Diverse Families with Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity encompasses a range of neurological differences such as autism, dyslexia and ADHD that impact how individuals perceive and interact with the world.

For children, young people, and their families from ethnically diverse communities, accessing appropriate support in the workplace and education system can be fraught with additional challenges.