This document provides information about a service offered by HQN Limited to help organizations comply with equality and diversity requirements. The service includes an assessment of an organization's equality policies and procedures, an equality analysis report for the board, and an outcome plan to mitigate risks. The price is £3,500 plus expenses. Two experts, Chris Root and Lauretta Rothery, are introduced who have extensive experience in equality and diversity in the housing sector. The service can help organizations ensure they are meeting their public sector equality duties following a recent court case.

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Keep equality
on your mind
The main issues for organisations to
consider are:
· Burden of proof
· Reasonable adjustment
· Due regard.
We can risk-assess how you are doing, using an
Equality Analysis process and provide a board
report to reassure you, or target actions which are
putting you at risk.
HQN's Equality and Diversity Exchange gurus Chris
Root and Lauretta Rothery have the skills and
experience you’ll need to get the job done.
Price: £3,500 plus expenses, to
include:
· Membership of HQN's Equality and Diversity
Exchange for one year: http://hqnetwork.co.uk/
products/performance-and-service-delivery/
the-equality-and-diversity-exchange
· A full review of your equality policy and action plan
· An Equality Analysis report for your board
· An outcome plan which will mitigate risk.
Our experts:
Chris Root has been an equality and diversity advisor
for over 28 years and is one of the housing sector's
leading consultants and trainers. She is a highly
successful specialist in all aspects of equality and
diversity and has received three British Diversity
Awards.
Her knowledge and understanding of the equality
and diversity issues housing providers face and her
ability to help people overcome them is first class;
her training skills are second to none.
Chris's relaxed style addresses the important issues
of equality and diversity with humour and realism.
Audiences listen when Chris speaks, and understand
that equality and diversity is vital for everyone.
She is regularly engaged as a conference speaker,
consultant, critical friend and trainer.
Lauretta Rothery is an experienced housing
practitioner with nearly 20 years’knowledge of the
housing sector at operational and strategic levels.
She is aware of all the current challenges faced by the
sector, and has led many projects delivering solutions
to those issues.
Her knowledge and understanding of equality and
diversity has been gained from leading, promoting
and delivering policies and procedures within
organisations, whilst supporting and encouraging
staff, scrutiny panels and board members to embrace
equality and diversity when reviewing policies and
services.
She has an extensive knowledge of reviewing and
risk-assessing policies, procedures, working practices
and service delivery, identifying areas of risk, gaps
and areas of best practice in an interactive style.
Lauretta can take this information and create the
practical steps to address all these issues. Her
experience within the housing sector means she
is able to tailor the information to the audience
ensuring that solutions are relevant and
implementable.
Lauretta engages audiences, giving practical
examples and gaining interaction around possible
solutions to problems and leaving the audience with
practical knowledge.
Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, your Public Sector Equality
Duty, is being quoted in the many court cases, most recently that
of Akerman-Livingstone v Aster Communities Limited.*
The case was brought by Shelter, with intervention by the Equality and
Human Rights Commission, and concerned a housing repossession.
This case may require housing providers to revisit their equality
policy and other procedures, and to assess, through Equality
Impact/Analysis, whether the process for repossession considers
‘due regard’at every stage of engagement, particularly with
people with disabilities.
HQN has a track record of helping organisations achieve real and lasting performance improvements. If
you are interested in accessing this service, please contact us by emailing david.ganz@hqnetwork.co.uk
*camebeforetheSupremeCourton10December2014;judgementgiven11March2015