Delivering the Prevent duty in a proportionate and fair way

Are you concerned that actions taken to comply with the Prevent duty could pose risks to your requirement to give ‘due regard’ to advancing equality, tackling prejudice and fostering good relations, the three aims or the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)? Have you assessed the impact of your Prevent policies, practices and action plan against the requirements of the PSED? Did you know that new guidance explains how you might go about this?

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Dates for your diaries

Actively promoting equality, diversity and British values is an essential part of your journey to outstanding and beyond – to be the ‘best of the best’. Ofsted expect outstanding colleges to place the promotion of British values ‘at the heart’ of all that they do, which means taking a whole-college approach to this agenda. By popular demand, I am delivering an intensive, interactive national workshop on ‘Outstanding practice in promoting British values, taking a whole-college approach’.

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Open or closed recruitment?

How open are your recruitment processes? Are you confident that you have removed unnecessary barriers for disadvantaged groups? How have you strengthened the workforce by recruiting from the widest pool of talent? Would new guidance from the DWP be useful?

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Take the lead: a guide to welcoming people with assistance dogs

Do your staff, such as those working in reception, security, student services and estates, know how to welcome and provide support for people with assistance dogs? Do they know the legal duties providers need to meet for assistance dog owners? A new guide might help.

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New strain of workplace banter? Religious mockery replaces sexist jokes

A new report by the Faith Research Centre finds that workers who would not make sexist or racist jokes mock beliefs instead. Often, the jokes result in low level exclusion, but staff rarely report this. The research also found that HR managers have a very different view of what’s happening in their workplace than many workers do. How sure are you that you know what is happening in your workplace?

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