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Workforce Race Equality Standard - Race and Disability
Workforce Race Equality Standard - Race and Disability
Workforce Race Equality
Standard
The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES),
introduced by the NHS Equality and Diversity Council (EDC) for all
NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups came into effect on 1
April 2015. This was in response to ‘The
Snowy White Peaks’ a report by Roger Kline which provided
compelling evidence that barriers, including poor data, are deeply
rooted within the culture of the NHS.
The WRES is a mandatory requirement embedded
within the NHS Contract to ensure effective collection, analysis
and use of workforce data to address the under-representation of
Black Minority Ethnic (BME) staff across the NHS. It will require
the Trust to demonstrate progress against
nine standard indicators specifically focused at Race
equality.
Workforce Disability Equality Standard
The WDES was commissioned by the Equality and Diversity Council
(EDC) and developed through a pilot and extensive engagement with
Trusts and key stakeholders. It is mandated through the NHS
Standard Contract. All NHS Trusts were required to submit
their first year’s data by 1st August 2019 to NHS England.
Following this, results must be published to the Trust website
action plan developed to address any discrepancies.
Ten evidenced based metrics, not dissimilar to the WRES, will
enable NHS organisations to compare the experiences of disabled and
non-disabled staff. This information is to be used to develop local
action plans designed to enable demonstrable progress against the
indicators of disability equality.
Monitoring Progress
The Trust
Inclusion Working Group (IWG) is responsible for developing
action plans and reporting outcomes to the Board, who will
monitor and scrutinise progress against the WRES metrics. Both
Aspire, the BME staff network ,and Enable, the disability and
Carers network groups will be kept up to date on progress along
with staff side and key stakeholder groups.
The WRES has clear links with the
Equality Delivery System 2 (EDS2) which also became mandatory
for NHS Trusts, including CCG’s from April 2015.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS
Foundation Trust is committed to tackling race discrimination and
creating an NHS where the talents of all staff are valued and
developed – not least for the sake of our patients.
Our
Annual Report on the Workforce Race Equality Standard and Workforce
Disability Equality Standard 2019 highlights our progress
against both sets of metrics and identifies the areas we will be
focussing on over the coming year.
Our results from previous years can also be
found below;
For further information, please contact
Asmina.Ichowdhury@secamb.nhs.uk
or tel: 01737 364428 or 07795 236 554.

