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Empsy® provides leading edge coaching and
training for equal opportunities and diversity. Under the
Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 organisations are subject
to a statutory general duty to take positive action to promote
equality and diversity.
Through training and
workshops, Empsy® can help organisations to achieve their mission,
improve competitiveness, embrace diversity and ensure equality
in the workplace. This would increase the harmony, job satisfaction
and productivity in organisations. Huge costs can be saved
from reduction of absenteeism and prevention of industrial
tribunals
Equality Act 2006
An Act to make provision for the establishment of the Commission for
Equality and Human Rights; to dissolve the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Disability Rights Commission; to make provision about discrimination on grounds of religion or belief; to enable provision to be made about discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation; to impose duties relating to sex discrimination on persons performing public functions; to amend the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and for connected purposes. [16th February 2006 CHAPTER 3]
The Act places on public organisations a positive duty to:
· Eliminate unlawful discrimination.
· Promote equality of opportunity and good relations between persons of different groups.
It also requires the organisations to
1. Carry out evident-based Equality Impact Assessment systematically to assess their activities, polices and services.
2. Consult people in the community on new polices and services
3. Ensure the accessibility and the suitability of services.
4. Provide equality training for staff.
5. Monitor progress and publish the monitoring reports.
Empsy® Ltd has expertise in the promotion of good relations between and across the six ‘equality strands’ of age, disability, gender (including transgender), race, religion/belief, and sexual orientation, in particular, it has specialists’ experience in the areas of cross-culture, transgender and gender identity.
Empsy® Ltd also has an extensive experience in helping local authorities to carry out equality impact assessments.
Recent projects include:
Leading and promoting mainstreaming diversity throughout the City of Peterborough by integrating strategies, planning, performance objectives and targets.
Supporting continuous performance improvements by leading projects that raised the diversity standard across the full range of employment and service delivery responsibilities in the City of Peterborough.
Implementation of Inside Outside Guidance for Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust:
- Acted as a guest speaker to open the workshops with a presentation and speech: "A vision for the implementation of Inside Outside Guidance - the Mental Health Implementation Framework & NHS Plan".
- Co-facilitated a workshop on Health, healing and intercultural therapy.
Diversity workshop for Cambridgeshire NHS black and minority staff network - "Positive Action for Positive Change Programme".
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