We successfully delivered an Equality and Diversity workshop which greatly improved the understanding of equality and diversity reporting by provider organisations across Leicestershire.  

Background

The three Leicestershire CCGs (Leicester City CCG, East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and West Leicestershire CCG) wanted to significantly improve the quality of equality and diversity reporting by provider organisations.​

Action

Our Equality and Inclusion team held a workshop to provide contract managers from the CCGs and providers with clarification on the CCGs’ expectations of equality and diversity reporting.  The 22 attendees were drawn from provider organisations, the three CCGs and NHS Midlands and Lancashire’s contracts team.​

Topics covered in the workshop were:​

• Section 13 of the NHS Standard Contract​
• Accessible information Standard​
• Workforce Race Equality Standard​
• Workforce Disability Equality Standard.​

Impact / Feedback

“I just wanted to say thank you for the brilliant Equality Workshop you facilitated last week. Equality and Diversity has been a real sticking point in reporting across all our contracts in the past year, with providers (and me) being unsure of what/how/why they have to monitor and report to be compliant with the NHS standard contract.”

“Everyone said that they found it really useful; the content was spot on and the Dragons Den group activities helped to put it all into contest. Personally, I think it’s something that could be a mandatory CCG-wide training day as it highlighted how services (and CCGs!) are going to have to change their attitude towards Equality and Diversity monitoring/reporting to keep up with new national requirements.”

James Hickman (who requested the workshop), Children’s Planning and Commissioning Manager, Leicester City CCG

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