Fair by law, fair in practice
Equality law, bias and the protected characteristics.
A half day on equality law and practice: the five core concepts, the Equality Act 2010, the public sector and Welsh duties, bias in people decisions, and each protected characteristic in turn.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 6 hours
- Where
- Equalities and Diversity
- Price
- £129
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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 half-day Explore moves from first principles to the law and then to each protected characteristic. It opens by separating equality, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging, with lessons from the Ford Dagenham strike. It then sets out the Equality Act 2010, the Public Sector Equality Duty and Brown principles, the Welsh socio-economic duty and the law in motion to 2026. A section on bias weighs the Implicit Association Test against process design. It closes with intersectionality and social class, race equality through Macpherson and the Casey review, equal pay and harassment, and religion, belief, age and the Eweida case.
Aims
This half-day Explore aims to develop the legal grounding and practical judgement to make fair decisions about people and services. It builds the habits of giving due regard while options are open, designing bias out of process, reading equality data beneath the headline and weighing apparently competing rights through proportionality.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Identify where legal risk arises in everyday decisions about staff and service users.
- Plan equality impact assessments and positive action that stay lawful and change outcomes.
- Interpret equality data across characteristics to reveal disadvantage that single labels hide.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish equality, equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging, and explain why each can be achieved without the others.
- Apply sections 158 and 159 to plan positive action that stays lawful and avoids positive discrimination.
- Plan an equality impact assessment that starts while options are open, uses evidence and engagement, and changes the decision where needed.
- Set out which equality changes are in force, which are coming with a date, and which are still pending.
- Apply process design, including structured interviews, agreed criteria, independent scoring and accountability, and check claims against their evidence.
- Explain intersectionality using Crenshaw's analysis, and break down data so that disadvantage where characteristics cross is not hidden.
- Interpret race equality data, including the NHS WRES and Welsh evidence, to distinguish representation from fairness.
- Judge apparently competing rights through proportionality, using the Eweida case, rather than by ranking characteristics.
Built from 4 parts.
6 hours of learning.
- 01The words, the law, the dutyEDI foundations, the Equality Act and the public sector dutyBitesize3 modules
- 02Law and bias, honestlyNew equality law and bias in people decisionsBitesize2 modules
- 03More than one labelIntersectionality, class and race equality at workBitesize2 modules
- 04Fair treatment for allSex, equal pay, harassment and the other characteristicsBitesize2 modules
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Part of the Equalities and Diversity topic, also sold whole as Everyone belongs.
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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