The examples below provide insight into how other Good or Outstanding rated services are succeeding in this area of inspection.
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What equality, diversity and inclusion means in the workplace
In this blog, Baidar Khan, Registered Manager, Lets Care All discussed what equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace means.
Read more about this service here.
Care provider: Lets Care All
Date published: July 2023
Supporting staff protected characteristics
The service enabled open communication with staff and people taking account of their protected characteristics. Leaders gave examples where they had ensured a positive culture regarding staff protected characteristics.
Staff and managers were taking positive steps to ensure there was open dialogue when appropriate to remove stigma. Where staff or managers were identified as being dyslexic, equipment was provided to support them in their work.
Read more about this service here.
Care provider: Avenues South East
Date published: November 2022
Equal gender pay
The provider had been monitoring the gender pay gap within their workforce for many years and were actively ensuring that gender inequality was addressed.
The provider had undertaken an internal monitoring programme around recruitment and equal promotion opportunities and took action to ensure that women had an equal opportunity to undertake higher paid and senior management roles.
Read more about this service here.
Care provider: Avenues South East
Date published: November 2022
Why we need more leaders from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds in social care
In this Blog, Munira Thobani one of Skills for Care’s board members shares her insights on the importance of encouraging diversity at senior levels in social care.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2022
Why social care teams need to reflect the communities they support
In this Blog, we spoke with social worker Nawal Taha, who previously ran her own domiciliary care provider, about how important it is for social care teams to reflect the multicultural communities they support.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2022
How the Moving Up programme supported me and now my team
In this Blog, we speak to Thomptiana Thompson about how she has seen the impact of our Moving Up Programme from both a participant and an employer’s perspective.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2022
Inspiring bravery in the boardroom
In this Blog, we speak with Monique Carayol, Leadership and Talent Development Coach and co-founder of the Bravery in the Boardroom movement, about how to encourage diversity in social care leadership.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2022
How this training provider is helping to support apprenticeships for a diverse workforce
In this Blog, training provider Access Skills explain their approach to supporting apprentices from diverse backgrounds.
Care provider: Access Skills
Date published: August 2022
Making strategic and sustainable changes to support equality
We spoke with Skills for Care Board Member and leadership coach Munira Thobani about what it means to make sustainable changes to support equality.
Read the full interview here.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: February 2022
Why we need to strive for equity, not just equality
We spoke to Clenton Farquharson, Director of Community Navigator Services CIC and individual employer, about what it means to strive for race equity across social care and our society.
Read the full interview here.
Care provider: Community Navigator Services CIC
Date published: February 2022
The fight for diversity
Carol Burt, Director of the Paul Clarke (Staffordshire) Community Interest Company and board member of the Sickle Cell Society spoke with Skills for Care about her experience as a Black person climbing the ladder in social care, and the challenges she’s experienced and witnessed around diversity in the sector.
Read the full interview here.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2021
Celebrating diversity
In this Blog, Steven Onasanya, an assessor at Lambeth Council Adult Social Care, shares his experience of working in social care and his experiences and insights of diversity and equality in the sector.
Care provider: Lambeth Council Adult Social Care
Date published: October 2021
How you can deliver better care with a diverse workforce
In this three-minute audio clip from the Care Exchange podcast, Kate Terroni from the CQC talks about why having a diverse workforce can help businesses to deliver better outcomes for people.
You can listen to the full podcast here. Access our whole Care Exchange series here.
Care provider: Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Date published: October 2021
Support for promoting equality and diversity among social care teams
Supporting equality and diversity among the social care sector is a core element of our strategy and all our work at Skills for Care.
Read more about this here.
Care provider: Skills for Care
Date published: October 2021