Creating equitable & inclusive workplaces for our colleagues & customers
Our Purpose is to provide the skills needed to build a better future - one job at a time. A better future isn't just for some, but for everyone.
Focus areas
- Pursue gender equity
- Foster inclusive behaviours and recruitment practices
Targets
- Create equitable and inclusive workplaces for our colleagues and customers
- 35% gender balance in leadership and management roles by 2027 and 50% by 2034
FY24 highlights
- Trained 'Inclusive Recruitment' champions across the business
- Ran 'Inclusive Culture' training sessions
- 10 external events on ED&I in the workplace
- Began diversity data collection for clients
- Relaunched our family friendly policies, enhancing parental leave and introducing new policies on Menopause, Fertility and Domestic Abuse
- Trained internal Menopause Champions
FY25 next steps
- Launch 'Gender Equity Programme'
- Additional internal training on continuous improvement on 'Inclusive Recruitment'
- Awareness campaign around our revised family friendly policies
- Extend reach of our current diversity data collection for our clients
- Menopause awareness training
- Review current practices around maternity leave returners and workplace neurodiversity
- Continue supporting our ED&I philanthropic partners
Focus areas
- Pursue gender equity
- Foster inclusive behaviours and recruitment practices
Targets
- Create equitable and inclusive workplaces for our colleagues and customers
- 35% gender balance in leadership and management roles by 2027 and 50% by 2034
FY24 highlights
- Trained 'Inclusive Recruitment' champions across the business
- Ran 'Inclusive Culture' training sessions
- 10 external events on ED&I in the workplace
- Began diversity data collection for clients
- Relaunched our family friendly policies, enhancing parental leave and introducing new policies on Menopause, Fertility and Domestic Abuse
- Trained internal Menopause Champions
FY25 next steps
- Launch 'Gender Equity Programme'
- Additional internal training on continuous improvement on 'Inclusive Recruitment'
- Awareness campaign around our revised family friendly policies
- Extend reach of our current diversity data collection for our clients
- Menopause awareness training
- Review current practices around maternity leave returners and workplace neurodiversity
- Continue supporting our ED&I philanthropic partners
As an employer and staffing provider, we can significantly contribute to eradicating discrimination and inequalities within both our own workplace and the workplaces of our clients.
Creating equitable, diverse & inclusive workforces will help to build a better world where everyone is valued for their contributions and treated with respect. We know that ED&I is a marathon without a finish line. To drive systemic change, we need tools, inspiration, expertise, and incentives to stay in the fight.
Over the last year, we have been delighted to appoint a new Head of ED&I, Annabel Honour. Annabel brings a wealth of expertise in the ED&I space, coupled with excellent knowledge of our clients and their challenges.
Click here to hear from our Head of ED&I, Annabel Honour
"Being able to drive positive change not just for our business, but for our clients as well, feels like a very unique privilege. Embedding ED&I into everything we do and impacting so many communities across STEM really is the way to build a better future for us all."
Click here to hear from our Head of ED&I, Annabel Honour
"Being able to drive positive change not just for our business, but for our clients as well, feels like a very unique privilege. Embedding ED&I into everything we do and impacting so many communities across STEM really is the way to build a better future for us all."
Our ED&I Strategy
In order to deliver our internal ED&I strategy and support our clients, we work with a diverse range of partners who bring a wealth of expertise within their respective fields.
Inclusive workplaces
Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQIA+
Social mobility
Disability
Inclusive workplaces
Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQIA+
Social mobility
Wellbeing for Engineers
Our long-term ED&I strategy, built around accountability, commitment and community, enables us to take purposeful forward action.
Raising awareness amongst our colleagues & customers
This year we have increased our focus on events, growing the number of events we host and covering a broader range of ED&I topics and challenges.
All our events had the common theme of collective learning, collaboration and creating positive impact across the communities we support, be that colleagues, customers, partners or industry groups.
external ED&I focused events & webinars
attendees of in-person events
attendees & 'on-demand' views of our webinars
Our flagship events over the last year, attended by our colleagues and customers, included:
ED&I Programme; Digesting Data
In-person event hosted by our Head of ED&I, Annabel Honour, and Data Expert, Dan Cohen, focused on the importance of data collection, effective analysis and taking action.
ED&I Programme Conference; 'Lived Experiences'
Attended by a wide range of organisations, with 9 speakers from our partner communities and networks.
'Rise and Thrive' webinar; Empowering your career after a break
Hosted by female leaders at Gattaca and an expert speaker from STEM Returners. Focused on boosting confidence, breaking down barriers and unlocking transferable skills.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week - webinar series
Promoting understanding, acceptance, and inclusion of neurodiversity in the workplace.
CP7 Launch Event
In-person event hosted by our Rail team and Women in Rail, focused on working collectively and collaboratively to address the skills gaps in the rail industry.
Ethics of Ethnicity webinar with AFBE
Held during National Inclusion Week to drive the theme of #takeactionmakeimpact
Pride Month Webinar; Creating safe and inclusive workspaces
Hosted with our partner, Portsmouth Pride, to celebrate Pride Month and encourage the creation of inclusive cultures all year round.
Women in Tech Event
Part of our 200+ ‘Women in Tech’ community, including sessions from inspirational women in the tech industry.
We have also arranged and contributed to multiple STEM-aligned events and activities in collaboration with our ED&I focused philanthropic partners to support:
