Publishing equality information due Jan 2015

Education providers need to publish their equality and diversity report on an annual basis. Your latest report should be published on your website by the end Jan 2015. But how compliant is your publication against the legal duties? Have you included your progress in meeting your equality objectives, and your approach to assess the impact of your work, for example your approach to carrying out equality impact assessments?

My perception is that there is a great deal of variety in the extent to which annual E&D reports published on a provider’s website meet the legal duties. Many do not, despite the outcomes of monitoring exercises by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) carried out in 2012 and 2013.

To check that you are meeting your duties, take a look at my free national guidance on the resource page of my website here.

You can read my equality news in October 2013 to find out the outcomes of EHRC monitoring and download fact sheets to help assess your performance here

You might also want to take a look at the checklist in the report published by the EHRC, which you can read here