EQuality Training
I am an experienced educationalist, researcher, and author; I draw not only on extensive knowledge but also individual experience and professional wisdom to give insights into matters of equality, equity and accountability.
I help teams think about their culture and their language, in order to promote the well-being of people and their skills. Past clients include police services, social services, children’s directorates, the NHS, ‘early years’ services, nurseries, schools and colleges.
I have built my knowledge from years of experience in the equality field applied to human rights, housing, social justice, education and learning & development. I bring enthusiasm, innovation and humour to working environments. My Ph.D. research looked into legitimacy and accountability, human rights, and the voice of disabled people.
EQuality Training
As director of EQuality Training, I have sought to create a vibrant company that celebrates the positive and possible. I will help you identify the elements that you need for your training course. I offer a variety of programmes, each tailored to the needs of individual delegate groups. Where required, I will be pleased to develop an entirely new programme to address specific issues and interests. I have many decades of learning and experience in working with all sectors. In education, for example, I have delivered a wide variety of programmes to match the needs of a wide variety of teams.
These supported conversations have helped all involved enhance the learning experience of all learners by developing strategies that aim to address those most marginalised. Both participation and wellbeing are raised when organisations tackle barriers and develop informed strategies that embed equality.
Programmes show you simple steps to ensure all people are fully respected and accommodated as equal members of the community and the organisation. Participants will discover that rather than being a legal nightmare, meeting Equality, Diversity & inclusive practice requirements is an exciting challenge and a welcome tool for positive and beneficial change.
Over the years I have created and developed a wealth of training materials, manuals, websites, think pieces and videos to make learning fun. As a highly skilled practitioner, advisor and programme facilitator, it’s a pleasure to be able to share these with you.
The blog complements the facilitated conversations, and relates to addressing equality, diversity, and inclusive practice in the workplace. It explores ideas that are not always given time in busy working days.
Publications
A Different Perspective on Inclusive practice – respectful language (2013).
This handbook raises key questions for our time, significant questions for learning and personal growth, and critical for the direction of organisational change.
Why is respect for human experience in such short supply within services?
“I really enjoyed reading the handbook, it is insightful and the use of language is very positive, enabling people of all abilities to follow, with ease. In my view, this handbook must be an integral part of every learning organisation, which works to achieve inclusive practice. Once you publish this handbook, we will seek permission from you, to use the handbook in our daily practice for all staff and make it available to service users who are our equal partners; to ensure strength of inclusive practice is maintained at all levels across the organisation.” Yasmin Khan, Director, Staying Put.
A Different Perspective on Disability (2011).
Set to provide more exciting insights in an easily accessible format to busy professionals. Hot on the heels of A Different Perspective on Equality, the first in our Different Perspective Series, we hope it will prove an equal success. For years, many organisations have tried to implement the theory of disability equality. However, many of you have told us that applying the theory to daily practice is a major challenge. This book aims to make change both possible and practical.
“Your handbooks allow equality issues to be real and current which is what people need when they are being trained in something so complex.” Carrie James, Case Manager for Health Transition, Walsall Children’s Disabilities and Long Term Condition Services Child Development Centre.
A Different Perspective on Equality (2010).
A long awaited companion to our basic courses in Equality & Diversity. This book is a real achievement in terms of accessibility and synthesis. We hope it will provide a robust and challenging resource for many practitioners in the years to come.
The leading theme is that everyone has something to give to his or her community. This ability to contribute to shared prosperity is a fundamental part of what it means to be alive. However, too many still face a situation where their contribution is not recognised. Therefore, we need to understand that every individual has a right to be heard: their strength demands recognition, their experience must be valued, and their knowledge deserves public appreciation. Recognising the significance of contribution is the first step to achieving greater equality. Sharing a sense of belonging, participating in joint activity and finding meaning in common purpose all adds up to a sense of community life that enhances our wellbeing.
“In writing this handbook Laura Chapman has developed a resource that is personally, professionally and organisationally challenging. Her approach is detailed, systematic and very clearly and helpfully structured – and at the same time remorseless in its focus on the fundamental issues of equality and fairness. Definitions are detailed and comprehensive and taken together they provide a rich and clear vocabulary to support meaningful dialogue on the central issue of making organisations work for all their members, not just the privileged few.” John West-Burnham.
Educating for social justice, Wellbeing for all, written with John West-Burnham (2009).
Leadership for Social Justice at British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society conference July 2008.
Using dialogue to find a shared respectful language in order to build equity for vulnerable children and families from marginalised groups, at the ‘Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 11’ world conference in Melbourne Nov 2011.
The language of respect, The British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society conference July 2012.
Respectful language: how the use of dialogue can support the moral development of leaders and a move towards a more respectful culture within organisations, in the US and special editions of the Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture 2013.
Toolkits:
Oldham children’s services – Inclusive Practice: a toolkit for outstanding settings
Durham early years’ service – Inclusive practice in the home and beyond
Disability Equality in Education – Train the Trainer (Disability Equality Training for people with learning difficulties)
Barnsley children’s services – Inclusive Practice and Wellbeing: a toolkit for professionals (understanding the equality impact assessment)
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