Ruth Price, Policy Manager, North East Derbyshire District Council

Equality Works have been instrumental in helping us to move our organisation from an almost standing start in 2006 to a realistic target of achieving Level 3 of the ESLG by the end of March 2008. I have been extremely impressed by their enthusiasm and professionalism and have worked with a number of their consultants all of whom I would gladly recommend. They have an extensive knowledge of their subject matter and the personal skills required to transfer that knowledge through support and training. The areas where they have helped North East Derbyshire District Council are:

• Undertaking an audit to provide a position statement from where we developed our action plan
• Critically reviewing employment policies and practices and supporting HR in the collation of effective monitoring information
• Supporting a number of managers throughout the equality impact assessment process
• Critically reviewing and commenting on draft Equality Impact Assessments
• Undertaking training of front line staff