What is The Equality Standard?

From Equality South West

The Equality Standard (The Standard) is a cost effective, practical, non-bureaucratic, easy to use tool designed to help your organisation show that it is an employer that clearly values equality and diversity in the workplace. The Standard will help your organisation to:

achieve fairness and embrace equality and diversity in the workplace;
acheive tangible business benefits;
understand and comply with equality legislation and sector specific standards;
reduce the risk of discrimination litigation;
meet the equality criteria necessary to tender for public sector contracts and grant funding.

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