Inclusive Workplaces

Staff Networks are invaluable tools, whether they’re used to support their members, engage with the wider workforce or drive organisational change.

This session is about looking at the overall importance of staff networks and how to best utilise networks, increase engagement, create benefit for internal and external stakeholders and how to critically analyse your approach to ensure you’re getting the most value out of your staff networks.

There are 12 million people in the UK with a criminal record, with a broad and varied range of skills, experience and insight. Yet, people with criminal records are often overlooked in efforts to create more diverse teams. This webinar will help you understand the barriers faced by people with criminal records seeking employment, and how your organisation can make recruitment fairer for them.

Socio-economic background has a substantial effect on workplace inclusion, yet it is something we often avoid talking about. This session will explore socio-economic exclusion and how someone’s background affects opportunities, progression and experience of an organisation’s culture. We will also discuss how to attract, recruit, develop and include people from a diverse range of social and economic backgrounds.

Many organisations are taking the time to review their recruitment process through an inclusion lens and are looking for ways to make the experience more inclusive and attract and retain amazing diverse talent.  During this webinar we will shine a light on Positive Action as a really powerful recruitment tool and how it is a great opportunity to make your organisation more diverse, more inclusive, more fair and more representative of the service users or customers of your organisation. Engaging in positive action activities means you are making space for others who face marginalisation and significant barriers. Positive Action does not only occur in recruitment, but in this webinar, we will address how to put positive action into practice when seeking new employees.

The cost of living in the UK has increased sharply over the last couple of years. This has impacted households across the country, meaning many employees are experiencing a change in lifestyle and circumstance. Change, especially financially, can impact an individuals wellbeing in many ways. This webinar aims to share the reality of the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and provide employers with ideas of how to support their employees taking into account a range of experiences.