| Equality and Diversity: Part 1 - Understanding The Latest Legislation | |||
| 11 Oct 2010 | WS2556 | £259 | London Euston |
| 13 Oct 2010 | WS2557 | £245 | Birmingham City Centre |
| 18 Oct 2010 | WS2558 | £245 | Leeds City Centre |
| 31 Jan 2011 | WS3803 | £249 | Leeds City Centre |
| 15 Feb 2011 | WS3804 | £249 | Birmingham City Centre |
| 01 Mar 2011 | WS3805 | £259 | London Euston |
| 24 May 2011 | WS3806 | £259 | London Euston |
| 07 Jun 2011 | WS3807 | £249 | Leeds City Centre |
| 14 Jun 2011 | WS3808 | £249 | Birmingham City Centre |
| 19 Sep 2011 | WS3809 | £249 | Leeds City Centre |
| 26 Sep 2011 | WS3810 | £249 | Birmingham City Centre |
| 04 Oct 2011 | WS3811 | £259 | London Euston |
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Understanding and Implementing latest legislation
Equality and Diversity are important dimensions for all organisations but especially those working with public funding, including schools, colleges and training providers, where recent changes to Inspection Frameworks require specific responses to meet legislation and regulation. There are also clear and similar implications for private and voluntary bodies who bid for tenders and other procurement opportunities from the public sector.
All those involved with management and/or have responsibility for the teaching and training of others, need to ensure their knowledge is current in order to comply with latest regulation and legislation. This is especially applicable in the current political climate where requirements are changing fast and implementation timescales are changing frequently.
For example.
On 18th June 2010 the Government Equalities Office (GEO) withdrew its previously published timetable for implementation to enable the new Government to finalise its own legislative timetable. Further consultations on a range of issues are planned including the publication of draft Codes of Practice covering the new public sector duties, and enabling clauses, which will be laid before both the lower and upper houses over the lifetime of this parliamentary session. Whilst we are expecting some changes we anticipate that most of the more managerial elements of the Act are likely to make it into law.
Public Sector Bodies and Organisations will clearly have to have a robust and transparent process in place to meet the requirements of the public sector duties. Single Equality Schemes and Impact Assessments have been found to be the most substantial and verifiable mechanisms to address and show compliance with such new duties.
This workshop is delivered by an equality and diversity professional. It covers the latest and key legislation but more importantly, grasps the nettle of what effective implementation really looks like, providing a rich fund of highly practical ideas. In so doing, the workshop also explores the very real ways in which political correctness can go astray. Initiatives instigated in good faith are, far too often, fundamentally flawed because of a lackof real knowledge about good and effective practice.
For whom
The workshop is designed to help participants understand and apply equality and diversity legislation effectively. It is especially suited to all those involved in the management and/or the delivery of teaching and training. Including:
- Representatives from
- Schools
- FE Colleges
- Independent Training Provider Organisations
- Infrastructure Organisations
- Public Sector Bodies
- Teachers, Trainers and Learning Support Staff involved with learners
- Operational and HR Managers including Centre Managers and Verifiers
- Front line staff who liaise with employers
This training also acts as a bridge to our follow-on courses on Single Equality Schemes and Equality Impact Assessments. It is highly desirable that anyone planning to attend these follow on courses attends this workshop first.
IMPORTANT OPTIONS - Modular Programme
For senior operational and strategic managers, including Equality and Diversity Managers, we offer a 3-day programme that includes this workshop as Day 1 but goes on to provide practical and pragmatic guidance on meeting the public sector duties including the pivotal 'Single equality Schemes' and 'Impact Assessments'. Our formal recommendation is that those with high level organisational responsibility consider the 3-day programme.
The 3-day programme covers all the key requirements of current and pending equality and diversity legislation and it is recommended that the programme is attended as a whole. It is recognised however, that not everyone will be able to attend on three consecutive days and indeed some people will only wish to cover specific issues. Consequently, each day of the programme can be attended in isolation. Days 2 and 3 begin with a recap on the core underlying legislation that was covered on Day 1. Where delegates are attending all three days, there is an option to join the programme at morning break, 10.45, on each day to miss the legislative review element. The 3-day programme attracts a price discount over booking single days. Booking options are thus:
- Full 3 day Programme
- Day 1 – Understanding and Implementing the Latest Legislation
- Day 2 – Equality Impact Assessments Made Easy
- Day 3 – Developing and Implementing a Single Equality Scheme
See links to these events below.
To help participants decide which option is most suitable for them it is also recommended that those who cannot answer most of the following questions, confidently and without recourse to reference materials, should attend the 3-day programme.
- What are the eight existing discrimination statutes?
- What is meant by the phrase "associated discrimination"?
- Outline two examples of the economic argument for equality and diversity?
- List three different issues associated with the prevailing demographic time bomb
- Where and why is Positive Discrimination allowed in employment (in one part of the UK?)
- What do you understand to be the intention behind the 2010 Equality Act?
- List six of the 13 proposals within the 2010 Equality Act
- What are the grounds for a GOQ or a GOR?
Those who have attended this or our previous workshops on Equality and Diversity Effective Implementation should be able to attend days 2 and 3 in isolation.
Aims and Objectives
As a result of this workshop delegates will:-
- Understand the potential impact of equality and diversity legislation, - with signposts about the importance of equality impact assessment tools
- Understand individual and organisational responsibilities – and the growing emphasis upon organisational duties
- Be in a better position to challenge unacceptable behaviour
- Be in a position to clearly articulate the considerations which have shaped, and which continue to shape, equality and diversity including:
- Legal
- Business
- Demographic
- Historical
- Moral
- Be able to relate more easily to academic concepts and models used in the study; to the definition and application of equality and diversity strategies
- Be equipped with practical and tangible ideas to audit and develop best practice within both the workplace and from a service delivery perspective
- Understand better the key components of the Equality Act
- Understand better the specific duties placed on schools and colleges (optional)
Content
This course:-
- Examines the economic, legal and demographic drivers which are currently shaping equality and diversity issues
- Discusses how these three drivers are impacting upon service delivery, employment and your stakeholders in the public and private sector
- Revisits prevailing legislation on discrimination with signposts about the impact of both recent judicial decisions and those in Parliament
- Defines new concepts and terms on discrimination and allied issues
- Reconciles these drivers with your existing employment and service delivery policies, protocols and procedures
- Includes The 2010 Equality act – Key components
- Examines prevailing best practice in the public and private sector on equalities and diversity
- Highlights what external scrutiny regimes are looking for when they inspect your existing provision on equalities and diversity
- Provides opportunities for problem solving and sharing issues from your workplace
- Highlights prevailing and expected changes within theequality and diversity legislative framework
- Signposts the gradual shift from an individual to an organisational focus upon these issues
- Highlights, the proven, importance of Equality Impact Assessment Tools as a way of addressing the new and growing public equality duties
- Signposts sources of external information and advice on all these issues
The final 45 minutes of this workshop looks, in overview, at the specific duties placed on schools and colleges. Attendance at this session is optional - for those seeking a more detailed understanding we recommend our one-day workshop on the Equality Act 2010 – Understanding the Implications for Schools and Colleges
Delivery Style
The workshop delivery style is lively, participative and sensitive to your needs. Throughout the day a range of activities will be undertaken, including:-
- Formal tutorials
- One-to-one Interviews
- Group Workshops
- Open Plenary Debates
- Problem Solving and Sharing
- Open “Surgery” on your policies and practice
- Benchmarking best practice in the public and private sectors
- You the jury – your verdict on real people with real discrimination cases. What should the manager have done? What were the options? What elephant traps were opening up?
- Demographic quiz
- Media observatory
Related Equality and Diversity Workshops
- E&D Limiting Grades: Meeting the E&D requirements of the 2009 CIF
- E&D Limiting Grades: Narrowing Gaps in Learner Achievement
- E&D Limiting Grades: Embedding E&D at Curriculum Level & Assessing Impact
- Equality and Diversity: Developing and Implementing a Single Equality Scheme TWO DAYS
- Equality and Diversity: Meeting The Challenges of the Equality Act (3 days)
- Equality and Diversity: Part 1 - Understanding The Latest Legislation
- Equality and Diversity: Part 2 - Impact Assessments - Made Easy
- Equality and Diversity: Part 3 - Developing and Implementing a Single Equality Scheme
- The Equality Act 2010 - Understanding the Implications for Schools and Colleges
Certificates of Professional Development.
Formal Certificates of Development will be issued, by post, to participants who complete this workshop. These certificates will detail the key learning aims and the face-to-face learning hours undertaken, enabling participants to update their CPD records and logs accordingly. The workshop also allows time, during the day, for participants to reflect on and record their personal learning development and consider how best to apply the knowledge gained on return to work. This element of the programme is designed to maximise the benefits from attending and enable participants to make better review judgments when recording their CPD activities.