Workforce equality, diversity, and inclusion policy
Our aims
Our intention is to have a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work and be the best version of themselves. To achieve this, our ambition is to build confidence in our workforce and leaders by:
- creating a workplace where you can be you
- developing leaders so you can feel supported
- empower our workforce with education and understanding
- utilise data to make informed decisions
Our strategic approach, Thrive, has the ambition of making Gateshead a place where everyone can thrive. Our Thrive pledges include to tackle inequality so that everyone has a fair chance and to put people and families at the heart of everything we do.
Within our Workforce Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Strategy we aim to recruit and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we attract diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations, and insights.
To help achieve this we will set objectives, collect data to measure progress and identify disproportionately, and hold ourselves to account.