Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)


               

 

 

Our commitment to EDI

  • Creating a diverse and inclusive working and learning environment where everyone can thrive and be their authentic selves 
  • Consistently updating our EDI dashboard to demonstrate and track the organisations diversity 
  • Annually publishing our Gender Pay Gap online, demonstrating our dedication to transparency and equality 
  • Being a Disability Confident Leader 
  • Actively promoting respectful behaviours  
  • Running awareness-raising campaigns on matters of cultural inclusion and belonging 
  • Proactively challenging prejudice and bias to create a fair and equitable working and learning environment 
  • Offering an array of learning and development opportunities centered around our EDI initiatives 

Statement of Intent

"Our ambition is to create an inclusive working environment where each person feels welcomed, valued and can thrive, with equality and inclusion embedded into everything that we do. This relies on us attracting and retaining the best talent by ensuring that everyone is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, inspiring, and trusted environment."

Disability Confident Leader

Activate Learning aim to provide an education service which in its teaching, administration and support services, actively promotes equality of opportunity and freedom from discrimination on the grounds of age, gender, disability, family or marital/civil partnership status, race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious or other beliefs, or for any other reason which cannot be justified.

As a disability Confident Employer, we pledge to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities. We undertake to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the short-listing criteria for a job vacancy.

Neuodiversity is an umbrella term that is used to describe the variances and diversity of the human brain. Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia are some of the neurodiversity terms you may be familiar with, however there are more including people with neurological and mental health conditions.

Everyone is different and everyone deserves to be treated as an individual. Which is why we choose to take a person-centred approach as an organisation when it comes to supporting staff who are neurodiverse.
Activate Learning staff regularly complete data for our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) dashboard.

Did you know?

It is estimated that 15% of the UK population are neurodiverse, which is roughly 1 in 7 people.

Activate Learning are proud to be a Disability Confident committed and Leader employer as part of the Disability Confident scheme.

Proud to be a Leader

Activate Learning is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse, inspiring and trusted environment. We serve a diverse community and seek to develop a workforce that is representative of the community.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader, and we're proud to be signatories of the Care Leaver Covenant.