Explore Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources

Bringing the Equality Act to life introduces the Equality Act 2010 and how it impacts the rights of people accessing homelessness services and the staff who work in them. The information is useful for staff at all levels to improve their services and the support they offer.

Positive action in the workplace, for CEOs and managers, explains what positive action is and how it works, to enable it to be applied correctly in homelessness workplaces, thereby improving diversity and inclusion.

Promoting inclusion within homelessness services provides information and worksheets to support homelessness practitioners and managers to actively reflect on and address discrimination in the workplace. It covers issues from power structures and dominant cultures to cultural competence.

How language impacts EDI considers why it is important to make thoughtful choices around the language we use and provides tips for practitioners working in homelessness settings to enhance their commitment to delivering inclusive and equitable services.

The Chartered Institute of Personal Development provides factsheets and resources for staff and employers.

The disability-confident employers’ toolkit provide practical guidance to make it easier for leaders and HR executives to foster inclusive workspaces.

Ensuring we create communications with accessibility in mind is vital to inclusive comms. No one should be excluded because of accessibility needs and as communicators we have an important role to play in ensuring this does not happen.

Stonewall has a benchmarking tool for employers to measure their progress on lesbian, gay, bi and trans inclusion in the workplace.

The Race Equality Code, and its Accountability Framework, is designed to provide organisations across all sectors and sizes, with the opportunity to address a very specific challenge: How to deal with race inequality in the boardroom and senior leadership team.

This Style Guide provides principles that can help ensure that written material considers the difficulties experienced by some dyslexic people and allows for the use of text to speech to facilitate ease of reading. Adopting these principles for dyslexic readers has the advantage of making all written communication easier on the eye for everyone.

This app will check the content on your communications to support accessibility, and offers services to check your website for accessibility concerns

Learn about how people identify themselves and their beliefs in the areas you work in from the 2021 Census. Find out about:

• The ethnic group a person identifies with
• Gender identity
• Languages
• Ethnic groups within a household
• Multiple main languages in household
• Whether there are multiple religions in a household.
• People’s national identity (where they feel they belong or could think of as home)
• People’s national identity (where they feel they belong or could think of as home) broken down by country
• How well people whose main language is not English (or in Wales, English or Welsh) speak English
• The religion people connect or identify with
• Sexual orientation

This guide from Communication First offers tips on some of the most important things to keep in mind when planning for meaningful inclusion and participation of our AAC users in digital or online meetings.

A full guide with detailed suggestions is also available.

The app highlights lengthy, complex sentences and common errors; and helps to create communication that is clear and easy to read.