Workplace Equality Fund
Project Directory 2019-20
Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation AAI EmployAbility Name: Project Name: Diversity Works 2019/2020
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women
Main contact
Joy Lewis 0131 677 0340 [email protected]
Project Summary
AAI will utilise its expertise in recruitment and diversity to create opportunities for private sector companies to meet with job-seeking Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women. Companies will hear first-hand the barriers to work faced by this marginalised group. The project will also place BME women into meaningful, employer-funded placements as part of the learning process.
Companies will be supported during follow-up meetings to make the changes needed to systems and policies in order to increase the recruitment and retention of BME women.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Action on Hearing Loss Name: Project Name: Sound Working
Area: Lothian
Priority Group: Disabled People
Main contact
Gerard McCoy 0141 341 5329 [email protected]
Project Summary
The project will support Sky through the Working for Change campaign improving their confidence to recruit, support and retain deaf and hard of hearing individuals within the workplace.
Work Place Assessments and basic hearing checks will be conducted and Deaf Awareness Sessions will be provided which would include an introduction to workplace BSL and the development of a peer support model. Sky will be supported to achieve their Disability Confident Award which would demonstrate their commitment to supporting staff with disabilities. The trainer will sign post individuals to external organisations based on their identified needs e.g. their GP or audiology department. Referral pathways will be established to additional support classes including BSL Classes or Lip Reading groups to enhance the individual’s communication.
By establishing a Peer Support model for continued support, individuals will be empowered to support other colleagues experiencing issues and increase the reach of the project.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Age Scotland Name: Project Name: Immersive Unconscious Bias
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Women, Older Workers (Those Aged Over 50), Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
Mike Douglas 07963 196368 [email protected]
Project Summary
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are a key cultural challenge across Scotland. Age Scotland know from their Age Inclusive work that most HR teams accept the need to have a diverse and inclusive workplace. But what holds organisations back from making more progress is the low-level understanding of the issue across other senior colleagues in the organisation. The engagement of other senior colleagues is essential if changes in culture are to take place. The immersive unconscious bias project will be delivered across Scotland. The project will build an immersive Unconscious Bias workshop and deliver it to 15 senior teams within Scottish organisations. This project is a partnership between Age Scotland who are the leading organisation ensuring workplaces are Age Inclusive, Robin Iffla, a specialist Diversity and Inclusion expert and Interactive Learning Solutions, a drama-based learning organisation who are experts in using drama and film to enable people to experience their own bias. The interactive scenarios are a key part of delivering the immersive experience that will let attendees feel their own bias and so take action to change. There are four scenarios that are each filmed in four parts. As attendees progress through each part they learn more about the individual and uncover their own unconscious bias firsthand. At the end of the project there will be 15 case studies and testimonials that will be used to show other organisations of the benefits that can be realised by feeling the impact of unconscious bias and changing perspectives.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Bauer Radio Name: Project Name: Bridging the Gap
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disabled People
Main contact
Anna Fitzjohn 020 3879 2044 [email protected]
Project Summary The recent OFCOM report highlighted the need for Bauer Radio to increase the diversity makeup of the organisation and through Bridging the Gap we will be able to identify and upskill new, diverse talent for the organisation and wider Creative Industries. The Bridging the Gap project will provide personalised training for women, minority ethnic people and disabled people over five sessions of Finding Talent days. These are a recruitment tool for a mentoring and skills development programme that is bespoke to the individuals in order to help them progress in the creative industries. The training delivered will be personalised to the individuals, the skills gaps and needs of Bauer Media, and will include Digital, Content Production, Presenting, Producing and Leadership. Alongside this Bauer Radio will also provide personalised training to Women in Programming and management roles, supporting and upskilling in confidence, resilience and relevant technical skills in order to help retain and progress them within the organisation. To complement the recent introduction of their new recruitment process and manual, this funding will also allow Bauer Radio to provide Unconscious Bias and Power and Privilege training to 60 recruiting managers across Scotland.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Bridges Programme Name: Project Name: Active Care Futures
Area: Glasgow
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People; Women; Older Workers (Those Aged Over 50); Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
Maggie Lennon 0141 558 9749 [email protected]
Project Summary The Bridges Programme will work closely with Oakmister Health Care to bring together members of the migrant and refugee communities with job opportunities within Activity Work in Social Care. The project intends to offer both the employer and potential employees support to ensure a perfect fit and provide sustainable employment. The project will develop processes by which employers can understand and evaluate the skills and personal qualities of applicants where previous experience may not exist. There will be diversity awareness training for the employers and changes in attitudes to migrants and refugees as employees will be monitored. There will also be a process to recognise and celebrate migrant/refugee friendly employers. Potential employees will benefit from confidence building and communication workshops; placements and work experience; and guaranteed interviews.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Burness Paull Name: Project Name: Menopause at Work
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Women
Main contact
Emma Smith 0131 473 6059 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project aims to improve working conditions for women in the organisation who are currently or will in the future experience perimenopause or menopause at work. Law is now a predominantly female profession (52%) (Law Society of Scotland 2019). At Burness Paull 62% of employees are female and currently 42% of those are age 40 and above many of whom are or will be experiencing symptoms of perimenopause or menopause now or in the future.
The project will formulate a strategic approach to the menopause at work including the introduction of a menopause at work policy and associated manager and employee guidance documentation. Awareness will be raised of the menopause at work through education, training and events for employees and managers. Support mechanisms will be in place for the hose experiencing the menopause at work, including internal promotional materials and signposting to external organisations. This may also include promotion of and training in the implementation of existing policies and procedures such as flexible working or absence management which can be used to support women going through the menopause.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Central Scotland Regional Name: Equality Council
Project Name: Equal and Inclusive Workplaces for All
Area: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disabled People, Older Workers (Those Aged Over 50), People who experience gender based violence, Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
Eman Hani 01324 610950 [email protected]
Project Summary
The project team will work with private employers and their employees to improve knowledge, skills and practices to address employment inequalities within the workplace whilst creating a more inclusive working environment. Additionally there will be engagement with potential ethnic minority individuals and support them in workplace progression.
The main activities include: Capacity building 6 employers to review policies and practices currently in place; provide equality, diversity, inclusion, intersectionality and unconscious bias training to 6 private employers and their staff members; capacity building 15-20 employees from minority groups through soft skills training/development and signposting.
Bespoke consultations will be provided to employers looking to improve equality and diversity practices, mainstreaming equalities and working towards an inclusive environment. Delivery will include specialist staff with expertise within the area and monitoring and evaluation will be gathered to ensure ongoing legacy of support and sustainable best practices effectively put in place.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Edinburgh Women’s Aid Name: Project Name: Works 4 Women
Area: Edinburgh
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, People who experience gender based violence, Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
Kate Tregaskis 0131 315 8111 [email protected]
Project Summary
This pilot project will support 6 companies to improve their policies and practice around domestic abuse. The intention is that by providing training developed in collaboration with women with lived experience of abuse, it will be possible to identify and remove barriers that exist to obtaining and maintaining employment within these companies.
A short report and a toolkit will be produced as a collaboration between the companies and women attending the Works4Women employability project. The report will document the journey taken by the participating companies and the toolkit will provide practical information for other companies who would like to change their own practices.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Enable Scotland Name: Project Name: Building Brighter Futures
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disabled People
Main contact
Aileen Shrimpton 07889456497 [email protected]
Project Summary
ENABLE Scotland will build on the successes of their previous SPECTRUM project by using their recently developed Inclusive Employment Toolkit in partnership with Balfour Beatty. By working together, they will reduce the employment inequalities, discrimination and barriers faced within the construction sector and address the low percentages of staff working in construction who are female, have disabilities or from a BME background.
The organisation will work in partnership to raise the profile of the construction industry and Balfour Beatty as an employer that offers career opportunities for all in society. This will be achieved by running a joint campaign that directly promotes knowledge and understanding surrounding diversity and inclusion issues within the sector. The campaign will promote that all staff have a part to play in driving an inclusive culture within the business and will identify support mechanisms and interventions for 120 managers. Once these supports have been identified training and awareness raising sessions will be delivered nationally.
The work will address long standing barriers that people who have disabilities or are from a BME background face in entering and progressing in the construction industry so that everyone interested in the sector has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. By doing so the Balfour Beatty workforce will be representative of the communities they work in and focused on delivering inclusive economic growth.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Family Friendly Working Name: Scotland
Project Name: Flexibility for Success
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Women, Older Workers (Those Aged Over 50)
Main contact
Lisa Gallagher 07812 200264 [email protected]
Project Summary
The project will build on learning from a successful Year 1 WEF project and ongoing work with employers to develop a more flexible, family friendly approach to working. Flexible working benefits people, business and the Scottish economy. It will address employment barriers, inequality and lack of progression in the workplace.
The project will directly support The Edinburgh Fringe Society and indirectly support many of their partner organisations through dissemination of best practice. Scotland is proud to be known for its vibrant performing arts scene, but for workers, the industry itself doesn't lend itself well to flexible, family friendly working, and the work therefore is often insecure and sporadic. This consequently leads to a lack of diversity and career progression for (in particular) women.
The Fringe Society is seeking to become more diverse and inclusive by adopting a more flexible and family friendly working culture. The project will impact most on women and older workers and will reach 33 permanent employees and 200 freelance workers. Focusing on good flexible & family friendly working practice and recruitment amongst both permanent staff and freelancers, the project will offer practical HR and culture change support, bespoke line manager & senior leader training, access to toolkits and policies, knowledge-sharing, peer support and mentoring. This will lead to a more inclusive, productive working environment benefiting employees/employers.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Federation of Scottish Name: Theatres
Project Equal Access to Work Name: and Opportunities for Parents and Carers in Scottish Perfoming Arts Area: Nationwide
Priority Women, Workers who are experiencing social isolation Group:
Main contact
Jude Henderson 07764579231 [email protected]
Project Summary
The Federation of Scottish Theatres will work with their strategic partner Parents in Performing Arts (PiPA) to work with third sector and commercial (for profit) performing arts organisations in Scotland to increase business resilience by enabling them to attract, support and retain more diverse talent, ensuring that carers & parents have equal access to work on & off stage.
The resources and tools already developed by PiPA in response to their 2016 research on best practice will be made available to Scotland-based Performing Arts organisations. The employer-written Best Practice Charter, a set of 10 practical guidelines, and the Charter Programme developed in partnership with businesses such as National Theatre Scotland, Stellar Quines, Scottish Opera, Dundee Rep and Edinburgh Fringe Society, provides a tried and tested framework comprising a monitoring and evaluation framework, tools and resources to increase the business resilience of the sector by supporting it to become more diverse.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Fife Centre for Equalities Name: Project Name: Workplace Equality Minority Ethnic Project - Sky Dunfermline (WEMEP SkyD)
Area: Fife
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People
Main contact
Elric Honoré 01592 345313 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project will work with Sky (Dunfermline) to better understand barriers to employment and put measures in place to address the low uptake of their job openings with minority ethnic residents in the areas surrounding Dunfermline and within commuting distance in Fife. Employee research will comprise of focus groups with the Multiculture@Sky employee network and interviews with Team leads/Line Managers, to inform improvements in recruitment and employment policy and practice.
Interactive sessions will be organised with minority ethnic residents, and also including carers or parents of young people, in order to gain better knowledge and understanding of barriers or of what policies and/or practices need to be improved in the current recruitment process. The findings will inform the launch a new Modern Apprenticeship programme at Sky Dunfermline in 2020 targeted at individuals from ethnic minorities and to ensure the Sky workforce increases in diversity and becomes more inclusive.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation GenAnalytics Name: Project Name: Building Greater Diversity and Inclusion in Morgan Sindall Construction Scotland Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disabled People, Older Workers (those aged over 50)
Main contact
Jane Gotts 07738010926 [email protected]
Project Summary
GenAnalytics will work in partnership with Morgan Sindall Construction Scotland to support their efforts to improve diversity within their workforce. Morgan Sindall Construction Scotland is part of the wider Morgan Sindall Group. The business in Scotland employs 140 people in office locations in Motherwell and Inverness and also at multiple site locations across the country.
Diversity and Inclusion is becoming an increasing priority for the business however they have indicated that they need support to develop an impactful strategy beyond existing diversity and inclusion policies which are set at a group level. There is also a lack of understanding about existing diversity statistics in the business in Scotland including gender pay gaps at national level, workforce statistics, competitor benchmarking, and staff engagement. This nine month programme of activity will provide a road map for Morgan Sindall in Scotland to improve diverse recruitment and ensure all staff are equipped with the knowledge of the benefits a diverse workforce will deliver.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Glasgow North West Citizen’s
Name: Advice Bureau
Project Name: Widening Access
Area: Glasgow
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People
Main contact
Ade Otufale 0141 948 0539 [email protected]
Project Summary
Radiant and Brighter and GNWCAB will deliver a Diversity Training Programme for senior managers and key staff to address diversity related employment inequalities and barriers within the workforce.
The training will use participatory workshops to equip beneficiaries with greater knowledge and information on multicultural Scottish society, and the practical skills to support diversity and inclusion in their workplace. The key outcome will be improved recruitment, retention, and support processes for people from Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
The training model will provide training to HR staff and managers, who will then go on to deliver diversity training in their own workplace. Participants will be provided with training materials, and supported to develop an action plan, detailing the practical approach they will take to carry out this training. Radiant and Brighter and GNWCAB will offer aftercare to each organisation providing them with further support and guidance, alongside a final review process, to assess the changes that organisations have made with regards to diversity and inclusion.
GNWCAB will provide tailored advice to employers and employees throughout the project on issues including immigration, income maximisation and employment rights. This advice will also be made available in house and on an outreach basis via a dedicated project worker.
GNWCAB will recruit 6 individuals from Minority Ethnic Background who are under employed to be placed with Jacobs Engineering for internship for 12 weeks.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Grampian Opportunities Name: Project Name: Workplace Equality in Action
Area: Inverurie and Aberdeen
Priority Group: Disabled People, Workers who are experiencing social isolation and/or loneliness
Main contact
Linda Singer 01467 629675 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project will provide in depth support to develop working practices in two private organisations around equality.
We will carry out an audit with organisations around areas of diversity in the workplace. The project will help create a safe development space to work through issues around evaluating current skills, attitudes and resources around expanding diversity and equality in their workplace. This will include working together on reflecting on any fears or uncertainty, support with practical solutions, and working together on measurable culture and practice change. Research business practices to inform how best to raise awareness and developing understanding around value and strength-based approaches, processes and practical tools to start the steps towards cultural change.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Highland Third Sector Name: Interface
Let’s Get On With It Together
(LGOWIT)
Project Name: Employers Self Management Accreditation Scheme Area: Highland
Priority Group: Disabled People
Main contact
Alan Grant 07454934966 [email protected]
Project Summary
Let’s Get On With It Together (LGOWIT) promotes and supports the vision of the self-management for those living with long-term health conditions Self- management encourages and supports individuals to take greater responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and who seek to live life to its full potential. The LGOWIT partnership recognises the importance that employers have in supporting people to live with and manage their own health and wellbeing. LGOWIT also acknowledge that it can be difficult for employers to understand what they can do to support their staff, particularly if managers have no experience of managing a condition themselves.
The project will offer accreditation to employers to help them both gain more knowledge and support staff while at the same time gaining recognition for their approach of this good practice model. The accreditation will require employers to undertake training, review policy and procedures as they relate to HR and to support delivery of a peer lead course on self-management for staff with a long term conditions. In return they will gain accreditation as an employer who supports a self- management process for their staff.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Into Work Name: Project Name: Equality Works 2
Area: Edinburgh
Priority Group: Disabled People
Main contact
Tanya Knight 0131 475 2600 [email protected]
Project Summary
Equality Works 2 will work with private sector partner organisations to support them to improve their knowledge and practice specifically around recruitment and retention of disabled people.
This will help them recruit from a wider pool of candidates including disabled people, more confidently and help improve their staff retention rate. Real case study scenarios will be used to demonstrate challenges around supporting people with different health conditions and the impact of different disabilities on a person in work will be discussed.
This will be achieved through the delivery of appropriate training to managers responsible for HR and/or hiring and managing staff. We plan to agree measurable pledges from the participating organisations.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Outside the Box Development Name: Support Project Name: Mums Returning to Work
Area: Glasgow/Stirlingshire
Priority Group: Women
Main contact
Jill Keegan 07841015949 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project will build on the previously funded project to support more private businesses in the childcare sector to become recognised Mum Friendly Workplaces across Glasgow and Lanarkshire. The project will have 3 key strands:
Working with existing partners [Cadzow and Indigo nurseries] to evaluate the change to practice and policy the Mums Returning To Work training has made and produce a report that analyses the change for the workforce, including recommendations to ensure they can sustain the Mum Friendly stamp. Share existing learning with new partners ACE Place and Acrewood Nursery by setting up an employer peer support group. Work with new partners to train staff and managers to embed Mum Friendly practice in the workplace that supports women through maternity and on their return to work.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Port of Leith Housing Association Name: Project Name: Equality, Diversity and Flexibility in the 21st Century Workplace
Area: Edinburgh
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disabled People
Main contact
John Murray 0131 553 8754 [email protected]
07968 271 916
Project Summary
Port of Leith Housing Association (POLHA) will provide a range of training to twelve private companies in their supply chain. The training will cover the following themes: The Benefits and Advantages of Flexible Working Practices, Equality and Diversity in the Workplace, Unconscious Bias, The Equality Act Scotland 2010, Avoiding Discrimination in Recruitment and Equality Issues in Procurement.
The ultimate aim of the training is to promote a culture of flexibility, equality and inclusion within the respective organisations. Training will be delivered to staff within each firm over a nine month period. The partner organisations for this programme are; J Smart and Co (Ltd), CCG Ltd Cruden Homes (East) Ltd, Queensberry Ltd, Corstorphine Roofing TEYE Ltd, Brown and Wallace, TB MacKay Ltd, Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd, Dalton Demolition Ltd, Cala Homes (East) Ltd and Murdoch MacKenzie Construction Ltd.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Scotland’s Bravest Name: Manufacturing Company
Project Name: Scotland's Bravest Works for Everyone
Area: East Renfrewshire; Glasgow; North Lanarkshire; Renfrewshire; South Lanarkshire
Priority Group: Women, Disabled People, Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
Jackie Johnson 0140 471 0830 [email protected]
Project Summary Scotland’s Bravest will work with 2 of Scotland’s larger companies and other leading SMEs to help them to create Best Practice within their organisations when recruiting and employing staff particularly those with disabilities. The project will work with the employers to ensure their policies, procedures, guidelines are inclusive, fair and accessible and to ensure their staff are trained to work with people with disabilities, veterans and veterans partners. It is about respect and making reasonable, necessary changes to make sure that workspaces are inclusive and adding value and increasing efficiency.
Training and guidance will include:
Workplace assessments and what might need changed to accommodate someone with physical or mental health challenges. Training on working with veterans, veteran’s partners and the effects of social isolation on that priority group in the workplace. Staff training including sensitivity training and what they might expect when working with people with invisible disabilities such as PTSD. Discuss how being a veteran can be isolating within a workplace
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Scottish Engineering Name: Project Name: Inclusive Engineering - SMEs leading the change
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Women
Main contact
Rebecca Rigg 0141 221 3181 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project will work with Engineering SMEs across Scotland to enable them to better understand equality and diversity issues and support them to instigate change in their workplaces. The focus will be on:
Delivering 6 training sessions for SMEs on equality, inclusion and fairer recruitment practices in order to create more inclusive work cultures. Engaging with 10 employers to provide specialist training and one- one support, which will review and develop equality and diversity measures and policies to be taken forward, and in turn, transforming their recruitment processes to be more open and inclusive. Developing SME leaders to be equality and diversity champions. 4. Developing a network of women working in engineering SMEs and provide a development programme for them to become engineering managers/leaders (this will be open to 18 women).
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Stirling Enterprise Park (STEP) Name: Project Name: Making inclusive workforces a reality
Area: Stirling
Priority Group: Disabled People , Minority Ethnic People, Older Workers (those over the age of 50)
Main contact
Vicky Murphy 01786 463416 [email protected]
Project Summary
This project allows STEP the opportunity to work with organisations who want to create a truly inclusive workforce.
This project is outreach based and the purpose is to allow the necessary amount of time to be spent educating and supporting businesses to help turn the idea of inclusive recruitment into a reality. STEP will provide support and training to one local organisation in the form of workshops and policy development and roll out.
STEP will also spend time with the employer to go through the recruitment and hiring process. Training and education sessions will be delivered to the rest of the workforce so they are aware of what having an inclusive and diverse workforce means and they are also aware of what the expectations are on them to make the culture safe and welcoming for all, continually.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation TRC Media Name: Project Name: RAD
Area: Glasgow
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People, Women, Disable People
Main contacts
Claire Scally 0141 223 8820 [email protected] Margaret Scott
Project Summary
Rad is designed to address a key structural weakness for companies working within the television production sector in Scotland. Production companies have difficulty recruiting relevant staff from diverse backgrounds. Due to the nature of the television commissioning process, the speed at which broadcaster commission their suppliers (television production companies) means the companies often rely on word of mouth recruitment from within existing networks. This, in turn, makes it a difficult industry to break into for anyone outside these networks. Likewise, many individuals from outside these established networks are unaware of the significant opportunities that exist in the broadcast sector. As a result, television production companies find it difficult to recruit research and development staff from a wide spectrum of communities. TRC successfully developed rad to address this issue. By enabling companies to identify and employ new talent from diverse communities for a period of 8 months as part of a supported training programme this both creates a talent pool of candidates from diverse backgrounds for the sector and provides direct benefit to the participating businesses. Key Objectives: to develop leaderships skills in the participating businesses; to improve business output by introducing new cultures, outlooks and experiences to their development process; to train businesses in how to engage in new recruitment practices; to tackle issues relating to lack of diversity by creating new skilled jobs for individuals from diverse backgrounds. The training will be in Glasgow for up to 12 beneficiaries, 6 of which would be new to the programme
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation Values Into Action Scotland Name: Project Name: Building organisations to succeed & shine (BOSS)
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Disabled People, Workers who are experiencing social isolation
Main contact
John Brown 07840 367864 [email protected]
Project Summary
VIAS will deliver the 'BOSS' project in partnership with private employers across the Transport and Construction industries including Springfield Homes and Abellio- ScotRail, to enable them to attract, recruit, train and support people with learning disabilities and people on the autistic spectrum into employment.
The VIAS quality improvement services will educate the partner organisations on interview & selection techniques, how to create easy read documents, application processes, autism and learning disability awareness to improve attitudes, behaviours, policies and practices in relation to recruiting and supporting people to tackle the low employment statistics for people with a learning disability and/or autism in Scotland.
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Workplace Equality Fund 2019-20
Organisation West of Scotland Regional Name: Equality Council Project Name: E-POW (Equality Performance Observed in the Workplace)
Area: Nationwide
Priority Group: Minority Ethnic People; Women; Older Workers (Those Aged Over 50)
Main contact
Ghzala Khan 0141 337 6626 [email protected]
Project Summary The project will work 4-5 private employers and their employees to improve knowledge, skills and practices to address employment inequalities within the workplace whilst creating a more inclusive working environment. With a focus on Race equality, the plan is to incorporate intersectionality which addresses multiple barriers for employees and career progression due to race with added barriers such as age and sex. Delivery will include specialist staff with expertise within the area and monitoring and evaluation will be gathered to ensure ongoing legacy of support and sustainable best practices effectively put in place. The delivery plan involves:
In-depth support to 1 private employer on embedding equalities and anti- discriminatory practices throughout the business via mainstreaming. This will include work placements to 4-5 staff to research, gain insight into 3rd sector, build partnerships and implement an action plan for their Equality and Diversity Group Capacity building 2-3 employers to review policies and practices currently in place. Support includes offering bespoke consultations to employers looking to improve equality and diversity practices, mainstreaming equalities and working towards an inclusive environment 2-3 private employers have access to cultural diversity, equality and unconscious bias training as well as train the trainer training for their staff members. Organising and developing training to suit mainstream private employers to be delivered to their employees.
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