The focus on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), refocused us during the #blacklivesmatter campaign and brought this challenge back to the forefront of the agenda.
The National Housing Federation challenge us in their new Code of Governance 2020, to continue to increase the diversity of people employed and engaged in leadership and board roles within housing associations. They require us to work harder and smarter to hear the voice of a more diverse audience in our tenancies and in our communities.
We are being challenged to demonstrate our culture and integrity. We can help you consider your passion and the s assurance systems you might need to capture those voices.
How we can help?
We can help you review your equalities and bring to life the importance of diversity and inclusion in your organisation.
We can help you to consider organisational culture and integrity to help you drive lasting and impactful change.
We can offer you supportive challenge, good practice, support your assessment of where you are now and where you might go next.
We can deliver training and development to help you build your reputation and help you build trust with your stakeholders, communities and customers.
Equality Reviews
We can help you self-assess your delivery of obligations and the law, for example: The Public Equality Duty, the Equality Acts.
We can help you to consider the moral and business case for change and support your organisation to embrace these changes.
Recruiting a more diverse Board/ Committee
A diverse mix of skills and experience can benefit a housing board/council or a tenant committee.
There are many benefits to organisational profitability, and innovation from a diverse board/committee, including combatting groups think.
We can help you to be successful in the recruitment of a more diverse board and committee membership. We can support you to sustain that membership through mentoring, training and development, so diverse voices can be heard and their impact optimised.
Inclusion
We can health check your achievements on inclusion.
We can review how you add value in localities and communities.
We can help you consider the impact of your work and suggest ways in which you might embed, learn from and target resources against the social outcomes desired in your corporate plans.
Culture
We all want to work in a positive and inclusive culture. We can help you consider behaviours and how you are promoting your organisational values.
We can help your leaders consider and define the culture and values you seek to portray to deliver your mission and goals, helping you define and enact that desire culture in practice.
Integrity
We can help you review systems of probity, values, conflicts, related policies and procedures and internal controls assurance.
Transparency and Accountability
We can help you define transparency and build your accountability with stakeholders, shareholders, partners, tenants, residents, service users, neighbours, communities and other customers.
We can help you communicate the key issues which those parties expect to see and understand.
For supported housing we can help you build the voice of providers and partners, to triangulate the views you hear from tenants and residents.
We will help you consider the information you publish and the style and impact of that communication to different audiences.
We can support you to be accountable and transparent in the boardroom. we can offer a critical friend service to ensure reports and performance are open, transparent and provide assurance to enable effective decision making.
We can share great governance techniques for discussion and debate which maximise diversity of thought and best use of skills in the board room.
Training and Development
We can help you by facilitating discussions, consultancy and training, tailored for your t needs, by bringing this to life in interactive session for residents, boards/councils and staff teams.