Equality and Diversity
We support clients to comply fully with anti-discrimination legislation, and to remove unjustified barriers to success. We also help clients to move beyond this to implement proactive and creative approaches to benefiting from and celebrating difference and diversity. BACK TO TOP
Staff Training
We have a strong record of designing and delivering bespoke training programmes for senior management, the entire staff of colleges, staff conferences and specialist teams. Our training is developed in close partnership with clients, and tailored to specific needs and local circumstances. It is participative, practical and outcome orientated. It empowers participants to change their working practice, and make a measurable impact in their spheres of influence. BACK TO TOP
Governor Training
We have created and delivered specialist training programmes for college corporation members. They are delivered flexibly to meet busy schedules. They support governors to act on their legal duties and implement their strategic lead role in keeping equality and diversity on the college agenda. BACK TO TOP
Capacity Building
Drawing on Phil Barnett’s unique sector experience, we deliver flexible developmental programmes for local learning and skills councils. We support LSCs develop and review strategic plans for equality and diversity, to link equality and diversity to other key areas of work, to incorporate equality and diversity into Strategic Area Review, Performance Review and quality assurance and to promote good equality and diversity practice to their providers.
We support LSCs and their providers to use EDIMs to drive quality improvement and to focus and prioritise equality and diversity work. BACK TO TOP
Preparing for and Responding to Inspection
We work with providers to help them prepare for inspection and to implement post inspection action plans.
The consultancy empowers providers to demonstrate success in meeting all equality and diversity requirements of the Common Inspection Framework and in complying with all relevant equality legislation covering learning and employment.
Our work has contributed to providers having equality and diversity graded as a key strength by inspectors.
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Human Resources
We work with HR staff across all equality issues, including up to date briefing and training on all current and emerging equality legislation and the development and use of employment EDIMs.
Drawing on Phil Barnett’s membership of the Commission for Black Staff in Further Education and his authorship of “Towards a teaching force fit for the 21st century – racial equality and diversity in further education in Berkshire” we offer expert support to providers in diversifying their teaching and business support staff and in using the Race Equality Employment Standard. BACK TO TOP
Research and Policy Development
We provide a full range of research and policy development support. Please click on the following revelant link to view the matching publication (1:“EQUALITY IN ACTION" , "2: BERKS REPORT" & 3:"EQUALITY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION- THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE FOR FURTHER EDUCATION" )
For a testimonial from the Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership which published the "Equality and sexual orientation" report please CLICK HERE.
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Employer Engagement
The consultancy has a track record of working successfully with employers to achieve their implementation of good equality and diversity practice. BACK TO TOP
Sharing Good Practice
We have and continue to build up, a significant data base of good and interesting equality and diversity practice. This informs our advice to clients and underpins our training and other developmental activity. BACK TO TOP
Mentoring and Coaching
Phil Barnett is trained to be a coach and mentor for the Black Leadership Initiative, working with aspiring sector managers from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. BACK TO TOP
Developing Leadership for Equality and Diversity
Phil Barnett is qualified to use the Embracing Diversity Questionnaire (EDQ) and the Embracing Diversity Inventory... (EDI)*. These are 360° feedback instruments that assess the extent to which individuals, teams and whole organisations value, manage and promote equality and diversity. An appreciation of diversity is measured with reference to managerial competencies and transformational ways of enacting them. The instruments create development plans and measure change over time following action taken as a result of their use.
This approach is valuable for organisations taking a holistic, strategic, medium to long term approach to transforming their equality and diversity performance and leadership
and in using the Race Equality Employment Standards. BACK TO TOP
Equality Impact Assessments
We support colleges and other organisations to undertake equality impact assessments, as they are required by law to do. We take an approach which enables clients to complete impact assessment for race, disability, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation in one unified process, thus avoiding much duplication and unnecessary bureaucracy. BACK TO TOP
* The instruments have been developed by Leadership Research and Development Ltd, a spin off company of Leeds University.
