This toolkit offers support and guidance, a few nuts and bolts and tips for framing out a structure built on community cohesion practice and principles. It will also assist in meeting obligations under various legislative frameworks including: the Race Relations Amendment Act, Disability Discrimination Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Gender Recognition Act and legislation covering religious belief and sexuality. It recognises that there is no one blueprint that is appropriate for all.The toolkit acknowledges the breadth of diversity among grant making organisations while providing practical information and tools to assist at every stage of the building process. It takes the talk to another level, to walk the walk of inclusion by encouraging others to think about and pursue diversity in both their internal organisation and their external work as grant-makers.
More than 8 million employees say that long hours at work or stress have been the factors stopping them from taking up some form of training or education in the last three years. The figures from the TUC come as of Europe’s social affairs ministers to discuss reform of the Working Time Directive.Today’s figures have been released to coincide with the meeting but next week the TUC is expected to publish the full details of its broader telephone poll on the barriers to learning. Last month the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education reported a sharp fall in the number of adults currently in learning, though there had been an overall increase in the number participating in education over a three-year period.
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