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Principle: your organisation is committed to equality
Developing Your Organisation
Outcome 3: Your organisation is aware of its current profile and position in terms of equality.
Requirement
Conduct an audit of the equality profile of staff, volunteers, board, coaches and officials, members/participants, service users and elite performers
Essential evidence Added value evidence
  • A complete equality profile of the Board, and staff or key volunteers to be conducted against four categories (gender, disability, ethnicity and age).
  • Equality profile for participants/members (those who participate under the auspices of the NGB or CSP), coaches, officials and elite performers against the four categories (gender, disability, ethnicity and age). At least statistically significant ‘sampling’ and results are needed for the profiling of these groups.
  • An equality profile for Board, staff and key volunteers in terms of religion or belief and sexual orientation
  • An equality profile for participants, coaches, officials and elite performers in terms of sexual orientation (over 16’s) and religion or belief.
Requirement
Conduct an audit of Human resources policies
Essential evidence Added value evidence
  • An audit of HR policies needs be conducted and must nclude:
    • Recruitment and selection
    • Harassment and Bullying
    • Flexible working
    • Grievance Procedure
Requirement
Conduct an audit of Marketing and Communications*
Essential evidence Added value evidence
A similar equality audit should also be conducted for the Marketing and Communications policy/policies.

* Where an organisation does not have such policies then an indication of its understanding of the relevant equality, equity and diversity considerations should be ascertained
  • Website should be accessible to all (or plans should be in place to address this) and be working towards (or have achieved) compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act requirements. Information on the site should also be non-sexist, non-disability and non-racist. Where necessary, selected web pages can and should also be translated.
Requirement
Analyse the findings in terms of trends and equality impact. Present the information in a format that enables the information to be easily used in the development of an equality action plan (see preliminary level)
Essential evidence Added value evidence
The information gleaned from the equality profiling and audits to be considered and analysed with a consideration to:
  • Comparing the audit data with any relevant information available. This might include the Active People Survey, national surveys of sports participation in the home countries, Census data or other national surveys carried out in recent years
  • Identifying gaps in representation by equity groups. Acknowledge here if data are not statistically significant and commit to gathering essential data
  • Identifying where policies could be enhanced and improved
  • Making recommendations for action to address the issues raised
  • The results of the analysis should be communicated to Board, staff or members as relevant.
  • CSPs compare profile data against local data
Toolkit/Guidance
Templates & Guidance
This file is in pdf formatSample equity monitoring form for Scottish governing bodies - August 2008 (107kb)
This file is in word formatSample equity monitoring form for Scottish governing bodies - August 2008 (word version)(54kb)
This file is a weblinkRNIB guide to good website design
This file is in word formatCommunications Equality Audit Template (word)(94kb)
This file is in pdf formatCommunications Equality Audit Template(112kb)
This file is in pdf formatHR policy audit template(24kb)
This file is in word formatHR policy audit template (word version)(46kb)
This file is in pdf formatEquality profile questions(53kb)
This file is in pdf formatData collection(31kb)
This file is in pdf formatAnalysing audit data(22kb)
This file is in word formatTemplate equality monitoring form (long version)(46kb)
This file is in word formatTemplate equality monitoring form (short version)(36kb)
This file is in pdf formatSupported athletes equity monitoring form(90kb)
This file is in word formatSupported athletes equity monitoring form (word format)(80kb)
This file is in pdf formatStaff equity profile form(110kb)
This file is in word formatStaff equity profile form (word format)(84kb)
This file is in pdf formatBoard equity profile form(120kb)
This file is in word formatBoard equity profile form (word format)(82kb)


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