Helping Build Inclusive Organisations - Diversity is not a Minority issue.

By 2010 only 20% of the working population will be white, male and below age 45. (National Population Projections, Government Actuaries Department, 2004)

The six strands of equality legislation relating to Race, Gender, Disability, Religion and Belief, Sexual Orientation and Age require employers, service providers and others to take reasonable steps to prevent discrimination against people on prohibited grounds and provides for legal redress. The Disability, Gender and Race Equality Duties impose further obligations on Public Bodies to actively promote equality of opportunity, participation, and positive attitudes.

Current equality legislation on equality has been strand specific, disjointed and cumbersome for business. The forthcoming Single Equality Bill will create a simpler, unified structure. It is this clarity and simplicity that the United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE) embraces: by creating one framework that will encompass all areas of equality legislation leading to diversity and inclusion within the organisation.

UKCAE is a cross-community body that will formulate through consultation a Pathway that will provide awareness, understanding, knowledge and the necessary skills to enable an organisation to understand the requirements of equality legislation and assist them in adopting practices and implementing systems that will promote and enable them to benefit from diversity and inclusion.