We reap the benefits of equality and human rights education and training
We need to invest resources in equality and human rights education and training for everyone working in NHS Lothian. There is a significant amount of equality and human rights educational resources that we can build into our existing education and development programmes.
Staff have told us:
- Sometimes they are worried about doing the wrong thing and offending people. They want to call out discrimination and harassment respectfully and effectively. We need to give staff the confidence to react in the moment.
- They want to know more about equality and human rights law and principles and how they can embed them into their day-to-day work to improve the quality of their practice.
Over the next 5 years
We will support staff
- We will invest additional staff resource to allow us to take an innovative and effective approach to delivering equality and human rights education and training across the organisation.
- We will continue to promote and embed psychological safety and a commitment to excellence.
- We will develop and implement a new equality and human rights education framework that recognises people learn and change behaviour in different ways.
- We will co-design and deliver local equality and human rights education and training with people with lived experience.
- We will aim to achieve educational outcomes that tackle prejudice and promote understanding of other people’s circumstances and attributes.
- Working with NHS Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland and others we will contribute to a Once for Scotland approach to equality and human rights education and training.
Staff can access education and resources on the Equality and Human Rights Education pages. These include videos, links and information with stories about people’s experiences of discrimination and inequality, information about law and policy, and examples of best practice.
