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  • Human Resources
  • 40 languages
  • 60m

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 course

Course contents

This 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 this course

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

This Equality, Diversity & 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.

What issues does the EDI training course cover?

It addresses unacceptable behaviour, stereotyping, victimisation and discrimination as well as introducing 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 training 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.

We believe our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Course is the perfect way to make a positive difference in your organisation. This equality training can be completed online in just 1 hour, it provides printable certificates, helping you to show commitment to the Equality Act 2010 and it is 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… and 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?

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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 and Diversity Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the 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) and can be accessed 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.

7,773 real user reviews

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Inflexible and frustrating.

I felt that I was being preached to rather than informed. // Despite already knowing most of the content, it took me over an hour to complete the course – or maybe it just felt that way – because every time I revisited a previous slide, I had to sit through the entire content associated with that slide rather than just listen to the bit that I needed. I couldn't click to move forward until the content in each slide was finished. So frustrating and not something I have experienced in other online courses. The prospect of having to endure that for every one of 33 slides very quickly reduced my engagement with the content. / / Race and nationality aren't the same thing, yet one slide suggested that they were. / / Telling people not to stereotype and then associating various signs of physical frailty and incapability with older people specifically is contradictory and stigmatising, given that younger people can also experience these difficulties as part of a range of illnesses. I would recommend that you remove these, as using them as examples particularly associated with age reinforces existing negative stereotypes about older people. Thank you for reinforcing that by your choice of descriptors. Generalisations are stereotypical and can also encourage and reinforce prejudice. // In all honesty, I preferred reading the transcript to listening to the presenters. Their vocal intonation was distracting at times (very earnest and actor-ly) and some people learn more by reading rather than listening. You need to cater for both. // The course was too long. For anyone new to the topic, it would be hard to remember it all without a downloadable reference source in text. Training needs to be memorable in order to be capable of being implemented, especially anything with possible legal consequences. // I would have given the course 2 1/2 stars if you'd let me. It wasn't all bad, but changes do need to be made.

Appreciated the detail this course went into and the exercise of putting yourself in someone else's shoes. It is important for people to slow down and consider how something may impact another even if it does not affect them personally.

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

This course was very good. It was like being face to face to a trainer. However I thought some of the questions were a bit tricky. Still I only got 2 wrong, realising after that I should have given them more thought.

A good training course. I enjoyed it. It wasn't too lengthy and was quite interesting.

Enlightening and informative

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

The best course due to including breaks. Similar length courses to do the same please.

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

This was a stimulating and engaging course full with examples that related to real life.

A thought provoking course, that included many examples that relate to everyday life as well as the work place. It mentions the ideal work place, and why we need to have training in how to promote the necessary shift in our work place culture.

too long and a bit confusing especially at the start

This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 stars

terrible didactic training of the old school variety

Terrible, old fashioned, didactic, non-interactive to name but a few. Regularly butchers the English language, contradicts itself and switches between definitions like a floundering fish. Just awful.

Why is this training important?

Compliance

It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.

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 on the basis of 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; sexual orientation.

The Equality Act 2010

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