Laura Chapman EQuality Training

A strategy for Inclusion

A shared vision + equal treatment + flexible practice =

inclusive outcomes.

These issues will impact on the personal development of all team members as well as the culture and public image of the organisation.

Leading on InclusionLeading on Inclusion A Process

Welcome

Work Together

Shared vision

Way forward

Full participation

Managing

WELCOME

Preparing the task and researching the community; inviting in community ‘guides’; recruiting diversity; outreaching to alienated groups and individuals.

Equality and diversity as management issues

Organisations lose out on skills and competencies held by those whose lives and educational history have been difficult – those for whom success at work could be a valuable asset and contribution

Working together

Inclusion is an ongoing process of adjusting to diversity.

It liberates and engages all individuals by creating a mainstream culture that fosters belonging and participation.

New dutiesThe Disability Discrimination Act 2005 amends

the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

promote equality of opportunity

eliminate discrimination

towards disabled persons

eliminate harassment of

disabled persons

promote positive attitudes towards disabled persons;

encourage participation by disabled persons in

public life

take steps to take account of

disabled persons’

impairments; by treating more

favourably than other persons.

Vision Six + Thinking hats - Edward de bono

Narrowing the field of recruitment and promotion limits the skills base. And it restricts the expression of invaluable qualities such as empathy, creativity, motivation, self-reliance and sociability.

Locating Gifts and Capacity

Clients are victims, have deficiencies and are weak

Individuals have strengths

Minorities are deprived and have needs

Communities have capacities, assets and power

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. M Mead

Meaningful relationships

Our judgements about almost all social interactions, organisations and communities depend upon our perceptions of the relationships involved.

Professor John West-Burnham NCSL

The bigger picture

To embrace diversity is not only to comply with policy development, but to seek out and celebrate difference by creating flexible systems that never disable, but enable and empower.

Meaningful Relationships

Acknowledge :• Oppression & Discrimination • Institutionalised and Individual • Reactive and Passive • Attitudes and Prejudice Promote:• Belonging and Relationships• Information Sharing• Collaboration & Empowerment• Capacity and Difference