Every characteristic counts
Race, sex, class, religion, age and disability at work.
Around four hours on every protected characteristic: intersectionality and social class, race equality, equal pay and harassment, religion, belief, age and more, and disability from the social model to reasonable adjustments.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 4 hours
- Where
- Equalities and Diversity
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers, HR professionals and service leaders in councils, the NHS, housing, police, fire and charities in Wales and England.
Overview
This Focus brings together the protected characteristics and the disadvantage that single labels miss. It opens with intersectionality from Crenshaw, privilege and the evidence on social class from The Class Ceiling. It then turns to race equality at work through the Macpherson definition, NHS WRES data, the Anti-racist Wales Action Plan and Baroness Casey's review, and to equal pay and harassment through the Birmingham, Next and Asda cases. It closes with religion or belief and the Grainger test, the Seldon and Eweida cases, and disability, from the social model and Tom Shakespeare's critique to section 15 and reasonable adjustments.
Aims
This Focus aims to develop leaders who give every characteristic proper attention, read equality data beneath the headline and judge apparently competing rights through proportionality. It builds the practical habits of asking rather than assuming, holding good adjustment conversations and treating disadvantage as something systems produce.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Examine equality data by intersecting characteristics so that hidden disadvantage comes into view.
- Apply proportionality when rights appear to compete, rather than ranking characteristics.
- Hold adjustment conversations that remove barriers quickly and are reviewed over time.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain intersectionality using Crenshaw's analysis, and break down data so that disadvantage where characteristics cross is not hidden.
- Explain institutional racism using the Macpherson definition, focusing on what systems produce rather than what individuals intend.
- Assess your organisation's pay and harassment risks, including allowances, exceptions, menopause support and the duties in force since 30 October 2026.
- Judge apparently competing rights through proportionality, using the Eweida case, rather than by ranking characteristics.
- Apply the social model question of what gets in the way, allowing for fluctuating impairment and using language that follows the person in front of you.
- Plan and hold an adjustment conversation that removes barriers quickly, records what is agreed in an adjustment passport and is reviewed over time.
Built from 3 parts.
4 hours of learning.
- 01More than one labelIntersectionality, class and race equality at workBitesize2 modules
- 02Fair treatment for allSex, equal pay, harassment and the other characteristicsBitesize2 modules
- 03Disability, done rightDisability models, language, law and adjustmentsBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Equalities and Diversity topic, also sold whole as Everyone belongs.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 4 hours, £69
- The whole topicImmerse, Everyone belongs, 11 hours 30 minutes, £249. Already own the Focus? You pay £180.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms