Responding to on going racial injustice, inequity and everyday discrimination faced by ethnic minorities
Our Partnership has continued to raise the profile of its diverse workforce during Black History Month which ran throughout October 2020.
As part of this a 'Black Lives Matter ' workshop was hosted with our leaders. The objectives of the workshop were to educate and raise awareness, build change within our programmes and devise an action plan for change.
Topics covered included unconscious bias and racial micro-aggression which helps employees learn how their individual behaviour is influenced by their own blind spots and stereotypes. White privilege, language for Inclusion and creating an inclusive workplace.
What we did
23 programme directors and place leads took part in the conversation and the feedback shared by some of the attendees has been about how powerful the workshop was.
Following the workshop attendees were asked to share a personal pledge - because allyship is not just a concept, it must be part of everything we do.