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National Support Service: Equality & Diversity

Improving support logo - improvingsupport.org.ukSkild Training

Description: Diversity – making it real Disability equality training for development workers Human rights and equalities, Equality Impact Assessments

Target Audience: Any local support and development organisations, Development Workers

Date: Available now (see website for dates)

Region: Various (see website for venues and locations)

Contact Name: Jaya Gajparia Email: jayagaj@hotmail.com Phone: 0207 324 3048

Website: www.navca.org.uk/services/learningopps/skild/training

Equality Audit guide and Equality Impact Assessments 

Description: Practical step by step guide on how to conduct an EA and EIA 

Target Audience: Any local support and development organisations, Development Workers, cascade to frontline

Date: Ongoing

Region: All Regions

Contact Name: Jaya Gajparia Email: jayagaj@hotmail.com Phone: 0207 324 3048

Website: www.wrc.org.uk/what_we_do/our_projects/national_equality_partnership/default.aspx

United Nations Conventions a guide on how to access your human rights and civil liberties 

Description: A guide written in partnership with the British Institute of Human Rights. United Nations Conventions a guide on how to access your human rights and civil liberties Four conference/ seminars of the guide with workshops around England, these events are in development

Target Audience: And any local, sub-regional, regional support and development organisations.  Development workers

Date: July 2010 completed guide and four events scheduled in for November

Region: England wide

Contact Name: Jaya Gajparia Email: jayagaj@hotmail.com Phone: 0207 324 3048

Public Law Seminars 

Description: Regional seminars delivered by NAVCA, supported with bursaries for fees and travel by NEP 


Target Audience: Any local, sub-regional, regional support and development organisations and development workers

Date: September 2009 – end 2010

Region: All 9 regions (details to follow) 

Contact Name: Ange Jones Email: ange@wrc.org.uk Phone: 0207 324 3034

Equality Act events

Description: Four events focusing on the Public Sector Equality Duty and specific duties legislation 

Target Audience: Any local, sub-regional, regional support and development organisations.  Development workers

Date and region: TBC

Contact Name: Ange Jones Email: ange@wrc.org.uk Phone:  0207 324 3034

Equality Act briefing 

Description: Briefing for VCS on the Equality Act  

Target Audience: Any local, sub-regional, regional support and development organisations. Available online and at events

Date: From June 2010

Region: All 9 regions

Contact Name: Ange Jones Email: ange@wrc.org.uk Phone:  0207 324 3034

Pen-equality learning events 

Description: Regional events delivered in partnership with regional equality networks 

Target Audience: Any organisation involved in pan-equality work

Date: September 2010 – end 2010, possibly one end July

Region: TBC

Contact Name: Ange Jones Email: ange@wrc.org.uk Phone:  0207 324 3034

Production and distribution of NEP e-news

Description: Bi-monthly equality e-news for infrastructure organisations  

Target Audience: Contributions from equality strands and subscribers

Date: April 2010 – March 2011

Region: All Regions

Contact  Name: Geraldine Nolan Email: geraldine@wrc.org.uk Phone: 0207 324 3052

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