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Equality & Diversity

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Treloar’s is committed to eliminating discrimination and celebrates equality and diversity among our students and our workforce. We believe in the uniqueness and value of each individual and provide opportunities for people of all abilities to achieve their potential.

We celebrate diversity amongst our students, staff and visitors and recognise the contribution that individuals with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences can make to the life of Treloar’s.

The Trust is an equal opportunities employer. The aim of our policy is to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment as a consequence of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or philosophical belief, sex or sexual orientation, responsibility for dependants, employment status, trade union membership or social and economic status. Selection criteria and procedures are intended to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and in all other ways treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.

General Equality Duty

Treloar’s values have been set in recognition of the general equality duty. We are committed to the following objectives, in order to:

  • Eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
  • Advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a protected characteristic and persons who do not share it.
  • Foster good relations between persons who share a protected characteristic and persons who do not share it.

Our 2020 Equality and Diversity Objectives

Advancing Equality of Opportunity between different groups of people.

Objective Actions Measure
Identify key policies for staff and make them easy read – to support staff with ESOL or learning disabilities needs

 
  1. SMT/TLT to select the 10 key policies
  2. Work with SLT and Functional Skills team to develop easy read versions of these policies

 

 Staff survey’s
Staff Induction
SCG

 

Fostering good relationships between different communities:

Objective Actions Measure
Promotion of Mental Health Agenda, including a range of positive actions initiatives that promote men’s mental health
  1. Organise 3 themed weeks linked to national campaigns (13th – 19th May, 15th – 21st June,  19th – 23rd Oct) EDI Co-ordinator, Teachers & HR
  2. Review of MH Champion role – regular supervision, training and confidential reporting of the support interventions they are providing and the themes arising
  3. Recruitment of at least two men Mental Health Champions
  4. Further role out and embedding  of reflective practice groups in the school and college
  5. Three annual staff benefits events
 Staff and Students Feedback

Eliminating Unlawful Discrimination

Objective Actions Measure
Review of our physical environment to ensure it meets the needs of stakeholders with hearing and sight needs and  staff who are wheelchair users
  1. Identify who can complete these audits (internal or external expertise)
  2. Audits to be completed and recommendations to be reviewed by TLT, Governors and Trustees
  3. Agree what actions will be taken as a result

Named staff from TLT and SMT to lead on this

 Staff and Students Feedback
Environment Audit outcome

Eliminating Unlawful Discrimination

Objective Actions Measure
Establish a mechanism for reporting on those in receipt of flexible working arrangements to allow for monitoring of applications (and then those that are approved/declined) against the protected characteristics
  1. Agree how this will be recorded centrally and what information is already captured to allow for the reports we need.
  2. Organise reporting on an annual basis
 EDI annual report statistics
Staff Survey

Advancing Equality of Opportunity between different groups of people.

Objective Actions Measure
Positive action to increase the number of economically disadvantaged young people accessing Treloar’s School and College
  1. Continue to analyse year on year recruitment
  2. Admissions Team and Marketing to target other recruitment events and networks to reach a wider potential student groups
  3. Continue partnership building work with Local Authorities to ensure relationships remain positive, so that any student whose needs can be best met at Treloar’s are placed with us.
 Analysis of student recruitment based on social deprivation index over three year period

British Values

Treloar’s Leaders and Governors are committed and responsible for providing a curriculum which is broad and balanced and complies with statutory requirements. Together we uphold what is great about Britain and also to challenge what is bad. We reject intolerance and forms of radicalisation (of any kind: religious, nationalist, political, racial, and sexual). We embrace our responsibilities to one another and to the rules that govern the life of our society. We seek to engage with the world around us, and to shape it into an equal society for everyone.

Promotion of British values

  • At Treloar’s, we are dedicated to promoting values which ensure that our students develop a strong sense of social and moral responsibility. We prepare our students for life in modern Britain by developing an understanding of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and acceptance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
  • These values underpin the work we do and are promoted at various times throughout the academic year, extending beyond the classroom with a wide range of visits and enrichment experiences.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Objectives for 2020 Commitment to Procurement Leaflet Gender Pay Gap Report 2019
"Individual identity and belief are valued and promoted. Difference is celebrated. Practice within the school regarding the promotion of equality and diversity is seen as an exemplar".
OFSTED report, 2017
"Leaders prepare pupils for life in modern Britain by helping to develop a strong understanding of fairness, freedom and justice for all groups of people".
OFSTED report, January 2018