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RSM UK and Housing Diversity Network have joined forces to offer social housing providers a combined version of the HDN’s DNA and RSM’s RACE Equality Code.
RSM is a leading provider of audit, tax and consultancy services with a UK fee income of over £400millon. As part of our internationally recognised consultancy practice, we encourage organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors to think more strategically about the benefits of effective equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) governance. We support organisations in achieving their EDI ambitions through our innovative RACE Equality Code and a diagnostic assessment against its provisions.
Karl George MBE, Head of Governance at RSM, is a thought leader and internationally established governance consultant. Karl is the creator of the RACE Equality Code, the Assessment methodology and the Governance Framework which underpins it. We have delivered over 50 Assessments across the public, private and voluntary sector and created a community of organisations committed towards moving the dial on racial equity.
Karl George MBE
First of all, it’s not just another code! This Code, and its Accountability Framework, is designed to provide organisations with the opportunity to address a very specific challenge: how to deal with race inequality in the boardroom and senior leadership team.
It is not only a combination of current best practice and thinking around addressing the challenges organisations face in this area, but its unique DRIVERS* provide the refreshing, sometimes radical and uncomfortable solution needed to create lasting and transformational change.
The Code adopts an ‘apply and explain’ approach, meaning organisations are able to describe how, based on their specific circumstances, they will achieve the Code’s standards.
Adopters are required to carry out a self-assessment against the requirements, explaining the outcomes of their practice. Where a requirement has not been achieved, reasons for nonachievement should be given, supported by intended actions to satisfy the requirements.
By reporting, tracking, educating, and creating accountability at the top, we expect to see change that resonates throughout the organisation.
The Code draws together 200+ recommendations outlined in reports, charters and pledges, which aim to tackle diversity and inclusion challenges, and it synthesises them into a succinct Accountability Framework and quality mark.
Clear commitment to be transparent to all stakeholders through disclosure of current information on the progress and impact of initiatives across the organisation.
Measurable actions and outcomes that contribute to and enable a shift in the organisation’s approach to be delivering positive and sustainable change in race equity and equality.
Key indicators that create tangible differences in race diversity across all levels of the organisation.
A robust organisational framework that develops the ethical, moral, social and business reasoning for race diversity at all levels of the organisation.
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