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Local Authorities
Cumbria County Council: Equality and Diversity
Cumbria County Council engaged Equality Works to undertake an extensive Equality and Diversity programme which provided training across all levels, from Members to front line staff; encompassed issues from bullying and harassment to Equality Impact Assessment and corporate strategy; assisted in the progression from Level 1 to Level 3 of the Equality Standard for Local Government (ESLG) and successfully challenged perceptions of Equality and Diversity in an area where they had not traditionally been high on the agenda.
Westminster City Council: Equalities and Diversity Training
Equality Works was commissioned by Westminster City Council to develop and conduct equalities and diversity training for 2 separate groups of staff:
- Team Leaders, Supervisors and Professional Practitioners; and
- Operational Managers, Senior Technical/Specialist Roles and Divisional Heads.
The overall aims of both training programmes were:
Wandsworth Council: Harassment Training
We were commissioned by the Council Tax & Benefits department at Wandsworth Council to undertake Equalities and Diversity needs analysis with the senior management team in the department.
We started by reading and analysing relevant department documents, including an overview of the on-going management development training, the department’s business plan and the recent CPA inspection results. We also looked at Impact Assessments that had been undertaken and the equality policies, structures and systems developed to support the service.
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council: Corporate Guidance Handbook on Equalities Monitoring
Stockport Council commissioned us in the autumn of 2005 to produce a corporate guidance handbook on equalities monitoring in service provision.
The aim of the guidance was to promote a consistent approach to the equalities monitoring of service provision in Stockport Council. The target audience included managers and officers responsible for the development and operation of monitoring systems and those who are in a position to change service provision in response to data.
Ryedale District Council: Audit and Consultancy Support
We have recently undertaken an audit of equalities processes and performance across Ryedale District Council in order to support the Council in progressing to level 3 of the Equality Standard for Local Government. This has included a review of systems for the collection of workforce monitoring data. We are currently developing the next stage of our intervention to provide some capacity-building workshops around workforce monitoring for officers from Human Resources and senior managers. These sessions are likely to include:
North East Lincolnshire Council: Consultancy Support
We were commissioned by North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) in February 2008 to support them in establishing the evidence base for Level 3 of the Equality Standards for Local Government to meet their target of external assessment in October/November.
The Council had established Corporate and Directorate equality groups and had identified the need for further one to one support for Directorates to ensure that they were confident in the requirements for evidence at Level 3.
We facilitated a workshop with the Corporate Equality Group which allowed us to identify:
North East Derbyshire District Council: Equality Consultancy
Equality Works were commissioned by North East Derbyshire District Council (NEDDC) to carry out an audit of Equality and Diversity. This involved providing a programme of consultancy support to help the council progress rapidly from Level 2 to Level 3 of the ESLG.
Beginning work with NEDDC in July 2007 we also had to be sure that the Council could effectively manage Equality and Diversity in the future without growing the staff resources needed to achieve this aim.
Medway Council: Carousel Training Days
Our work with Medway has had several strands and has been continuing since 1998. The Equalities and Diversity project has had three phases. With the aim of mainstreaming equalities into all Council activities and to ensure that managers and staff integrate equalities into their key functions, Equality works were commissioned to carry out ‘Carousel training days.’
Medway Council: Black Workers’ Forum
We are proud of our long standing relationship with Medway Black Workers’ Forum (BWF), one of the most long lived and successful staff forums in the UK. We have facilitated sessions for them regularly since 2001.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Sexuality Awareness Training
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets recently changed their training provider and approached us on the basis that we have been working with them on a number of projects over the last two years and have received excellent feedback on all the interventions. They commissioned us to run two sessions as a pilot and will then review and evaluate the work for rollout across the Council.