Transcript A strategy for Inclusion

A strategy for
Inclusion
Laura Chapman
EQuality Training
A shared vision + equal treatment + flexible
practice = inclusive outcomes.
These issues will impact on the
personal development of all team
members as well as the culture
and public image of the
organisation.
Leading on Inclusion
A Process
Work Together
Welcome
Shared vision
Managing
Way forward
Full participation
WELCOME
Preparing the task and researching the community; inviting in
community ‘guides’; recruiting diversity; outreaching to
alienated groups and individuals.
Equality and diversity as
management issues
Organisations lose out on skills and
competencies held by those whose lives
and educational history have been
difficult – those for whom success at
work could be a valuable asset and
contribution
Working together
Inclusion is an ongoing process of
adjusting to diversity.
It liberates and engages all
individuals by creating a
mainstream culture that fosters
belonging and participation.
New duties
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 amends the requirements
of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
promote equality
of opportunity
eliminate
discrimination
eliminate harassment
of disabled persons
towards disabled
persons
take steps to take
promote positive
encourage
account of disabled
attitudes towards
participation by
disabled persons; disabled persons in persons’ impairments;
by treating more
public life
favourably than other
persons.
Vision
Six + Thinking hats - Edward de bono
Narrowing the field of recruitment and promotion limits the skills
base. And it restricts the expression of invaluable qualities such as
empathy, creativity, motivation, self-reliance and sociability.
Locating Gifts and Capacity
Clients are victims, have
deficiencies and are weak
Individuals have strengths
Minorities are deprived and
have needs
Communities have capacities, assets
and power
Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. M Mead
Meaningful relationships
Our judgements about almost all
social interactions, organisations and
communities depend upon our
perceptions of the relationships
involved.
Professor John West-Burnham NCSL
The bigger picture
To embrace diversity is not only
to comply with policy
development, but to seek out
and celebrate difference by
creating flexible systems that
never disable, but enable and
empower.
Meaningful Relationships
Acknowledge :
• Oppression & Discrimination
• Institutionalised and Individual
• Reactive and Passive
• Attitudes and Prejudice
Promote:
• Belonging and Relationships
• Information Sharing
• Collaboration & Empowerment
• Capacity and Difference