Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Voluntary reporting on disability, mental health, and wellbeing | gov.uk 
A framework to support employers to voluntarily report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.

Disability Confident – Are you disability confident? | gov.uk 
The Disability Confident scheme supports employers to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to the workplace.  

Disability Confident and CIPD: guide for line managers on employing people with a disability or health condition | gov.uk 
CIPD guide on employing people with a disability or health condition.

Employers guide | Scope  
A guide to provide employers with advice and information on how to report on a range of disability measures. It is aimed at larger employers with more than 250 employees. Smaller employers might also find this guide useful.   

The Diversity Champions programme | Stonewall
The Diversity Champions programme is an employers’ programme for ensuring all LGBTQ+ staff are free to be themselves in the workplace.  Resources, advice and support.

Ban the Box Employer’s Guide | Business in the Community  
Ban the Box is a campaign to remove the criminal record questions from initial steps of job applications.

Home Page | Social Mobility Foundation  
The Social Mobility Foundation service to help academically-talented disadvantaged students; seek work placements

Home page | #10000 BLACK INTERNS   
1000 Black Interns works with organisations to provide paid work experience opportunities for underrepresented talent in partnership with multinational corporations, professional firms, ambitious startups, and public bodies.

Parental Rights & Family Friendly Provision Q&As | CIPD 
CIPD information on parental rights, with resources and best practice advice.

Shared Parental Leave and Pay: How it works | gov.uk 
Statutory position on what your employees are entitled to.

Examples from GBC Accredited Organisations

Equal parental leave: why it’s good for employers too | Aviva 
Aviva on their equal parental leave policy, where parents are eligible to the same amount of paid and unpaid time off, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or how they became a parent.

TSB Pledges Equal Parental Leave, Miscarriage Leave and Infertility & Menopause Support in New Employee Support Package | TSB 
TSB on their equal parental leave policy, where employees who are new parents will be able to take up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave with their child, regardless of gender and includes adoption and co-parenting.

Maternity

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination | Policy consultation | CIPD 

Menopause

Menopause in the Workplace| Policy consultation| CIPD 

Menopause Workplace Pledge | Wellbeing Of Women 
Menopause workplace pledge calls employers to take positive action to make sure everyone going through the menopause is supported.

Families

Working Families | Changing the way we live and work 

Carers

Hiding in plain sight: carers in the workplace | Podcast | CIPD 

We’re here to make life better for carers – Carers UK 

Age

Information on Age Discrimination | CIPD 

GBC Accredited Organisation Examples 

Aviva communities | Aviva 

Examples from GBC Accredited Organisations

Ethnic diversity on boards: results and reflections on our campaign so far | Legal & General  
In August 2020, Legal & General launched the Improving board diversity campaign. This blog looks at the progress of the campaign over the first 18 months.

Board Diversity Toolkit | Perrett Laver
Perrett Laver have a toolkit for inclusive recruitment at Board level. Designed as an introductory resource, the toolkit provides advice and guidance on best practice as it relates to inclusive recruitment of Board members.

Some providers that GBC accredited members have used:  

Equality and Diversity Training, Resources, Equality Network | Equality & Diversity UK  
Equality and Diversity UK offer training and resources to implement good equality and diversity practice. Their services include coaching, mentoring, training, consultancy, facilitation and assessment.

HR Compliance Courses – Approved Online Courses | iHASCO
iHasco offer online training on HR matters, e.g. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Unconscious Bias, Disability and Mental Health Awareness, for organisations of a range of sizes and sectors.

Health & Safety / Compliance Training for Managers | iHASCO 
iHASCO also offer a range of courses with management teams in mind, focusing on what needs to be done at the highest levels of an organisation to help everyone develop together.

Diversity pay gaps are a good indicator of inequalities of access to work, progression and rewards.  Measuring the pay gaps allows organisations to monitor the effectiveness of the diversity and inclusion measures they put in place.

Pay gaps explained | Equality and Human Rights Commission  
Resources with short videos explaining why pay gap reporting is needed.

Fair opportunities for all: a strategy to reduce pay gaps in Britain | Equality and Human Rights Commission 
A report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission exploring evidence from research by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the size and causes of gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps, and whether interventions so far have been successful. 

Equality and diversity monitoring form | ACAS
Template to help you create equality and diversity monitoring forms as part of a job application process. Free to download and use.

Ethnicity pay reporting: a guide for UK employers | CIPD  
CIPD guide on how to publish ethnicity pay data voluntarily, how to facilitate this through categorising and reporting your data, and how to analyse the results to address any inequalities revealed.

Disability pay gap reporting | Scope
Scope’s guide for employers to help them report on disability in the workplace.

Human resource services | PwC
PwC’s useful free resources on diversity and inclusion, data collection and pay gap reporting.  They also have a guide on collecting and analysing data on the inclusion and diversity of your workforce here. 

Diversity and Inclusion benchmarking survey | PwC
Information on D&I Benchmarking and includes a benchmarking survey that organisations can take, to ‘diagnose the maturity of your organisation’s D&I programme, and see how your organisation compares to others in your region and industry’. 

Ethnicity pay gap reporting webinar | CIPD

Examples from GBC accredited organisations

TSB outlines plan to improve diversity and inclusion in its workforce 

Deloitte’s Ethnicity pay reporting case study | CIPD 

Network Rail Eastern Region – Disability, Ethnicity and gender pay gap reporting and annual report

UAP Workforce Diversity

Following hot on the heels of gender pay gap reporting, large listed companies will soon have to publish the ratio of CEO’s pay packages to those of the workforce due to new legislation that takes effect on 1 January 2019.

About | High Pay Centre  
The High Pay Centre’s work is dedicated to achieving a fairer pay distribution and reducing inequality in the UK.

CEO pay ratios: The new reporting requirements | AccountingWEB  
CEO pay ratio reporting requirements and how payroll departments should calculate them.

Pay Fairness Reporting Factsheet | CIPD

Extract: What is Pay Fairness?  

There are multiple perspectives on fairness at work. In pay terms, and from an organisation’s perspective, we identify three types:  

• The fairness of pay outcomes – how the pay budget should be distributed (distributive justice).  
• The fairness of the process used in making pay decisions (procedural justice).  
• The quality of the treatment that people receive when procedures are implemented (interactional justice).  

These forms of organisational fairness can create trust because they signal that people are respected and valued. By contrast, if people think an employer’s performance management and reward approach is not fair, they might not want to join or stay with that organisation, and may lack motivation. 

HR teams have an important role to play in formally defining what ‘fair’ means for their employer. This, in turn, will help guide management’s reward decision making (such as how much to contribute to employee pensions). Sharing this with employees will show what they can expect from the organisation and what the organisation expects from them.  

Publishing a narrative to accompany pay disclosure data allows people professionals to show the fairness of reward outcomes.  

Changing Shape of Fairness at Work | Reports | CIPD  
Information and context on changing the shape of fairness at work, looking at the nature and incidences of (un)fairness in the workplace and maps the contours of fairness through six core fairness ‘lenses’.

Examples from GBC Accredited Organisations

UK CEO Pay report 2021 | TUC 

• The median FTSE 100 CEO took home £3.41 million in 2021. This is the highest level of median CEO pay since 2018, and is an increase of 39% on the median FTSE 100 CEO pay in 2020, which stood at £2.46 million. 

• The median FTSE 250 CEO is paid 55 times the median UK worker. This is a significant increase from 40:1 in 2020. 

Social Mobility Commission

The Bridge Group
Worked with legal profession, KPMG, Welcome Group.  Based at Kings College London, research and consultancy. See their 2019 impact report here: 2019+Bridge+Group+impact+report.pdf

Social Mobility Taskforce

General information and resources

Inclusion and Diversity blogs & Business Resources | Institute of Directors 
The Institute of Directors have a range of blogs on inclusion and diversity issues, policies and developments and how they may affect your business or organisation. For example:  Top tips for fostering an inclusive workplace that attracts the talent you need.

Diversity, equity and inclusion | Aviva 
Aviva details of the organisation’s extensive work in this area and the organisations they partner with.

Ethnic diversity on boards: results and reflections on our campaign so far | Legal & General  
In August 2020, Legal & General launched the Improving board diversity campaign. This blog looks at the progress of the campaign over the first 18 months.

Employee Support 

Aviva communities | Aviva 

Improving Senior and Board Level Diversity

Ethnic diversity on boards: results and reflections on our campaign so far | Legal & General  
In August 2020, Legal & General launched the Improving board diversity campaign. This blog looks at the progress of the campaign over the first 18 months.

Board Diversity Toolkit | Perrett Laver
Perrett Laver have a toolkit for inclusive recruitment at Board level. Designed as an introductory resource, the toolkit provides advice and guidance on best practice as it relates to inclusive recruitment of Board members.

Diversity Data and Pay Gap Reporting

TSB outlines plan to improve diversity and inclusion in its workforce 

Deloitte’s Ethnicity pay reporting case study | CIPD 

Network Rail Eastern Region – Disability, Ethnicity and gender pay gap reporting and annual report

UAP Workforce Diversity

CEO Pay Ratio

UK CEO Pay report 2021 | TUC