The Equality Act 2010 – Focus Groups

Senate House UNISON are working with the University of London to help it comply with the new Equality Act. See below for details provided by Human Resources.

'Further to the results of recently conducted survey on the Equality Act 2010 (https://intranet.london.ac.uk/3851.html), our next step is to get richer data from a wider cross-section of the organisation. For this to happen, however, we need your involvement.

Please come along to any of the Focus Groups and share your opinions!

Over the period of next three weeks we will be running informal Focus Groups which will consider each of the Protected Characteristics in turn. We are looking for participants to join the discussions, give their opinions and share new ideas. Outcome of the meetings will then be communicated to the HR Division and will be taken into account in respect of the UoL Equality Policy. We kindly ask the managers to allow their staff who wish to participate in the focus groups to attend the sessions.

If you would like to attend one or more of the groups, please send an email to training.room@london.ac.uk.

The meetings will be held from 2pm – 4pm on the following dates:

Date of focus group	Protected Characteristic
Mon, 9 May 2011 in room STB7	Disability
Wed, 11 May 2011 in room G32	Age
Fri, 13 May 2011 in room STB7	Religion/Belief
Mon, 16 May 2011 in room G34	Gender
Wed, 18 May 2011 in room G32	Pregnancy/Maternity
Fri, 20 May 2011 in room STB7	Sexual Orientation
Mon, 23 May 2011 in room STB7	Marriage/Civil Partnerships
Wed, 25 May 2011 in room G43	Race/Ethnicity
Fri, 27 May 2011 in room G32	Gender re-assignment

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Susan Small, Staff Development and HR Manager on ext. 8101.'