Equality in Practice


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1   Link   ACAS – Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service
Mediating in employment; advice on good industrial relations practice, including equal pay.
2   Link   Age Positive
Department for Work and Pensions website promoting age diversity in employment.
3   Link   Andrea Adams Trust
UK Charity dedicated to tackling workplace bullying.
4   Link   Angel Productions
Angel Productions produces a range of video/DVD based training packs about equality and diversity at work.
5   Link   Children Mean Business
Provides a useful introduction to the variety of family friendly measures available to employers as well as showing, through case studies, how some of these work in practice.
6   Link   Commission for Racial Equality
Enforcing and promoting racial equality.
7   Link   Commission for Equality and Human Rights
Contains information about Government plans to develop a single agency.
8   Link   Department for Trade and Industry
Information and advice about how to balance work and childcare responsibilities to the benefit of employers, employees and their children.
9   Link   Disability Rights Commission
Working towards a society where all disabled people can participate fully as equal citizens
10   Link   Diversity Dimension
Cultural Diversity consultancy that can provide you with a head start in reaching the many different communities within the U.K
11   Link   Diversity Milkround
Aiming to promote awareness of diversity in the workplace, Diversity Milkround offers all job seekers and employers information, help and advice.
12   Link   Diversity UK
If you're professionally involved in equality and diversity issues as a practitioner working in an organisation; an external trainer; an organisational policy or strategy maker or a consultant working with organisations, take a look at The Diversity Directory, aimed at giving employers the widest choice of equality and diversity consultancies.
13   Link   Diversity Xchange
Diversity Xchange is a print and on-line forum for promoting best business practice. It seeks to stimulate interest in diversity management as part of a business corporate social responsibility. The forum regularly delivers current issues and debates surrounding age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
14   Link   Employers' Organisation for Local Government
You can find a summary of the Equality Standard for local government on this site. The standard was developed jointly with the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Commission for Racial Equality and the Disability Rights Commission.
15   Link   Employers Forum On Age
A network for employers providing advice and practical support about how business can benefit from age-diversity.
16   Link   EORdirect
Online subscription service from IRS, part of Butterworths Tolley, containing equal opportunities law and practice information for personnel and legal professionals
17   Link   Equality Challenge Unit
The Equality Challenge Unit has been working, since 2001, with higher education to improve equal opportunities for all who work or seek to work in the UK higher education sector.
18   Link   Equality Direct
Advice for employers on a wide range of equality issues, also providing an England-wide telephone service, telephone 0845 600 3444.
19   Link   Equality and Diversity Forum
A network of national organisations committed to progress on age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation and broader equality issues.
20   Link   European Commission: For Diversity – Against Discrimination
Contains basic information on the new European Union Anti-Discrimination Policies and give practical advice on how organisations and individuals can avoid and combat discrimination. A number of factsheets are specifically aimed at employers.