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  • Human Resources
  • 40 languages
  • 55m

Learning outcomes

  • Understand the Equality Act 2010 and learn about protected characteristics
  • Understand the types of discrimination, including direct, indirect, harassment and victimisation
  • Know how to treat others with respect and offer everyone fair access to opportunities

Covered in this EDI course

Course contents

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training course is broken down into 4 sections:

  1. 1
    The Ideal Workplace
  2. 2
    Unacceptable Behaviour
  3. 3
    The Protected Characteristics
  4. 4
    Practical Improvements

About our equality and diversity course

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are all about treating people fairly and with respect, no matter what their differences may be.

This Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training programme looks at how we behave at work and how our behaviour may affect those around us and was created in collaboration with global EDI experts who are CPD certified and recognised by IIRSM and Citation, it addresses the following points:

What issues does the EDI course cover?

It addresses unacceptable behaviour, stereotyping, victimisation and discrimination as well as introduces characteristics protected by The Equality Act – suggesting ways in which to build a more supportive, harmonious workplace.

An open and inclusive workplace has many benefits – both to the organisation and to individuals; such benefits include an increase in morale, better staff retention, and improved company reputation. By the end of our Equality and Diversity course, staff will feel more confident at addressing sensitive issues surrounding equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion; and we hope they will feel inspired and ready to make a positive difference in their workplace and the wider community.

Why iHASCO?

We believe our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training is the perfect way to make a positive difference in your organisation. This Equality and Diversity training can be completed online in just 1 hour and it provides printable certificates, helping you to show commitment to the Equality Act 2010. It is also CPD accredited and IIRSM & Citation approved for your reassurance.
Want to learn more about EDI? Download our guide to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace, created in partnership with Citation.

How can EDI training raise awareness of and improve EDI?

As a provider of HR compliance training, we’ve noticed a huge increase in the number of training sessions for our Equality and Diversity course…over the last couple of years in particular. It’s great to know that so many workplaces are actively training their staff and raising awareness of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in workplaces. So, how DOES training raise awareness of and improve EDI in the workplace?
Find out here how EDI training helps workplaces

The importance of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Training

It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.

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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Training certificate

Download and print

Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.

This Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Training course concludes with a 20-question multiple-choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion online training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System). These can be accessed at any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include?

Your Equality & Diversity Training Certificate will include your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.

Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third-party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.

10,202 real user reviews

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Valuable learning

This course- much like the others -was clearly presented with a guided, logical and very informative.

The course was ok.

The Course was fine, but could have been more engaging, maybe more case study examples linked to the subject matter that would be more engaging to watch. The images and videos did seem fairly pointless and just added padding to the course so that the viewer wouldn't, "switch off". There could have been more structured videos to aid with the learning.

Really good information

Found it really good and with really informative information

I really like the addition of examples.

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

Too long and too much detail

At an hour's runtime, this was far too long given the subject matter compared to the simplistic questions at the end. Some of the content seemed to be aimed at managers or HR rather than everyday staff, with cost-benefit analysis, legal definitions, and distinctions between categories being discussed in sections

Excellent information

Great content & very well explained. With self reflection embedded

Graphic illustration is easy to understand

This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars

too long

This user gave this course a rating of 3/5 stars

Why is Equality and Diversity training important?

Compliance

What does the law say on equality and diversity?

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. The Equality Act 2010 was established to provide a framework for businesses to adhere to the right of employees, and how they are treated in the workplace.

Equality and Diversity is about acknowledging that everybody has a right to fair and equal treatment, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. Originally, workplace legislation surrounding these rights was considered something of a ‘grey area’; with around 116 separate laws existing under the broad umbrella of ‘equality and diversity’. In October 2010, these were, at last, merged into one coherent act: The Equality Act 2010.

The Equality Act includes ‘Protected Characteristics’ which are differences between people which cannot be used as reasons to treat them any differently. Doing this would be against the law.

The Equality Act also includes ‘Prohibited Conduct’ which are actions that people are not allowed to do to each other based on any of the protected characteristics. This is illegal too.

Protected characteristics include age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; and sexual orientation.

The Equality Act 2010

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