College awarded Silver TIDE Award for its work on equality, diversity and inclusion

The College is delighted to receive the Silver TIDE Award for its work on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). This recognition reflects the College's commitment to building an environment where every single person feels they are treated equally, with dignity and respect.

TIDE is an EDI self-assessment tool that benchmarks organisations across 10 key areas, including: 

• inclusive recruitment
• leadership
• employee voice
• wellbeing
• belonging

The College worked on a number of initiatives to ensure that EDI is rooted into every aspect of the organisation's culture, including: 

• setting up an EDI staff working group to ensure all staff have a voice and diversity of ideas
• embedding EDI into College values and appraisal assessments
• strengthening the data we collect around how our current workforce is made-up and their experiences
• appointing a board-level sponsor and ensuring that diversity is a topic regularly discussed at trustee level meetings
• rolling out extensive training for staff and managers on a number of topics such as neurodiversity, unconscious bias, inclusive management and diversity awareness