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During the pandemic we hosted a series of webinars to support leaders and managers from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. 

The webinars covered a range of topics and provided a platform to share experiences:

 

Discrimination and care workers’ rights

This webinar covers the challenges of discrimination. It explores how people are discriminated against, the types of discrimination and what individuals can do to address this.

 

How to become an anti-racist organisation

This webinar explores the challenges an organisation may face when looking to become anti-racist, how they can embrace and understand race and what they should do to address the imbalance. 

Duration 1 hour 26 mins

 

COVID-19 and black, Asian and ethnic minorities communities - COVID-19 recovery and beyond

This webinar looks at each of the recommendations from the COVID-19 task force and black, Asian and ethnic minorities Communities Advisory Group facilitating discussions around how organisations can drive these recommendations forward.

Duration 1 hour 33 mins

 

Building alliances to support the black, Asian and ethnic minority workforce 

This webinar focuses on addressing the challenges by reflecting on the history of the panels' lived experience and what strategies they've learnt and put into place to combat and protect themselves and the importance of networks and colleagues to build alliances with. This webinar illustrates that by understanding the problems, they're not solely those of people from a Black, Asian and ethnic minority; but belong to everyone and are everyone’s responsibility.

Duration 1 hour 9 mins

 

Mental wellbeing and the workforce

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the mental wellbeing of people from ethnic minority communities. Listen to the panel of experts discuss the history and impact of everyday discrimination, social inequalities and the effect these complex challenges and stresses can have on staff mental health and wellbeing. It also covers how risk assessments should be managed by organisations and what individuals can do to work and assist each other.

Duration 1 hour 13 mins

 

Collaborations and supportive networks within organisations 

Whilst networking internally and building alliances is really important, understanding how to network with colleagues outside your organisation and the benefits this can bring is really important too.

This webinar identifies the challenges organisations, networks and individuals can face.

Duration 1 hour 9 mins

 

Exploring the recommendations of the COVID-19 Task Force and black, Asian and ethnic minorities Communities Advisory Group

This webinar will focus on supporting people who organise their own care via direct payments - the importance and challenges of cultural matching and rights to access PPE, risk enablement, human rights and the protective factors of safeguarding adults and supporting staff and people in care home establishments.

Duration 58 mins 11 secs

 

Supportive leadership during COVID-19 

This recorded webinar focuses on how organisations need to do more to be inclusive and be aware of the challenges their staff are facing. It looks at how registered managers play a part in ensuring their staff have the space to undertake difficult conversations. It features a panel of experts across the field presenting the challenges and looking at possible solutions to drive and deliver change.

Duration 1 hour 7 mins