Alex Coward  General Manager, Organisational Development

 TAL

 Heila Brits  Manager, Workforce Strategy

 Department for Child Protection & Family Support WA

 Erica Fitch  Customer Success Consultant

 LinkedIn

Diversity and inclusion strategies that actually work

Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity

 - Christine M. Riordan  Provost and professor of management at the University of

Kentucky

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3. Diversity & Inclusion Programs

Four ways TAL are driving a culture of equality

1.

Metrics & Management

2.

Flexible Working

4.

Male Champions of Change

96% 99% 48.8%

TAL - Measure it, so that you can manage it

believe TAL are actively creating an inclusive and

respectful workplace

of women at TAL earn 99% of the comparable

male salary

of people work flexible hours

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Flexible Working

Awareness Campaigns

Unconscious Bias Training

Working Parents Program

Gender Pay Equity

Male Champions of Change

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CPFS - demographics and challenges

2727 employees

82% permanent

81% female

11% CALD

8.5% Aboriginal

CPFS Workforce 3.1% WA population are Aboriginal

Over 50% of children in care are Aboriginal

9x more likely a staff member will work with an indigenous family

2013-2014 saw a 9% increase in Aboriginal and a 4% increase in non-Aboriginal children in care

Client Creation of a professional workforce More representative workforce Funding Awards

Challenges

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CPFS - programs to increase Indigenous representation

Aboriginal Cadetship Program

Aboriginal Traineeship

Program

Aboriginal Entry level positions &

pathways

Aboriginal employment

register

Cultural leadership program

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