Black Lives Matter in FE – Guardian news reports on systemic racism in colleges

Did you know that last year (2020), the Guardian newspaper highlighted several race equality concerns in colleges, including the lack of robust data monitoring, analysis and action to address race inequality and underrepresentation? What qualitative and quantitative information do you collect and use to continuously improve race equality in your organisation? How have you advanced race equality in the last four years?

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Did you miss the deadline to publish new equality objectives in April 2020?

With the Corona Virus lockdown in March, you might have missed the deadline to publish a fresh set of equality objectives by April 2020. If so, here is a quick reminder of the duties to support you to publish.

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Are you ready to publish your new equality objectives next month?

One of the specific duties of the Equality Act 2010 requires colleges and universities to publish equality objectives by April 2012 and then every 4 years. This means that your next set must be published by April 2020. Are you ready? Monitoring by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has, in the past, revealed that many organisation’s equality objectives were not legally compliant. Are yours legally compliant? Do they, for example, meet the legal requirements to be ‘specific’ and to be ‘measurable’? Are they ‘outcome’ rather than ‘output’ focussed? Would a quick reminder of the requirements help?

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