For the purposes of this category, diversity is considered to be:
- The promotion of equality and the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or any combination thereof;
- The promotion of human rights in line with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
As well as being open to businesses, non-profit organizations and public sector bodies, this award is also open to individual service delivery teams within any of these operations. For your entry, please tell us how you go about promoting and incorporating diversity in your organization, including details of how you meet the following criteria:
- Developing new policies to promote diversity & equality in the work place
- Creating structures and policies which lead to improved knowledge, expertise or understanding of diversity and equality issues.
- Achieving measurable improvement in workforce diversity and equality.
- Achieving measurable improvement in diversity and equality outcomes in service delivery to your clients / customers.
- Changing methods of work to provide better or more accessible services / products to customers / clients.
- Understanding and responding to customers from a particularly diverse range of users of your service / product.
