Why is equality diversity & inclusion important – an overview of current inequalities within the health sector and wider services?

The session will explore:

What a culturally competent service looks like in relation to your:

• Working environment,
• Management commitment,
• Communication, engagement and consultation functions,
• Understanding of the impact of cultural contexts and a broader understanding of (in)equality,
• Policies

Benefits of embedding cultural competence in everything you do:

• For your organisation,
• For you and your team,
• For your service users.

Speaker

Tony Hendrickson, training development manager, Diverse Cymru

Tony is currently the training development manager at Diverse Cymru where he helps develop and deliver cultural competence & unconscious bias session as part of the certification scheme. Tony has over 20 years’ experience working within the race-equality and community development sector. During this time, he has coordinated both ward-based and city-wide programmes and delivered equality-based awareness session and training to a range of initiatives, groups, organisations and partnerships across the voluntary, public and private sectors. Within his various roles he is an advocate of a less singular or binary approach to addressing [race and faith based] inequality by recognising the multiple dimensions of identity and the impacts these have on peoples individual and communal lives.

Resources

MIDIRS search pack: M96 Institutional racism