Further information
Care Quality Commission
Count Me In: The National Mental Health and Learning Disability Ethnicity Census:
www.countmeinonline.co.uk/dvd.php
Equality and Human Rights Commission
www.equalityhumanrights.com/advice-and-guidance/new-equality-act-guidance/
Equality and Human Rights Commission and the University of York
Researching and monitoring adolescence and sexual orientation: Asking the right questions,
at the right time. EHRC, 2010
Government Equalities Office
www.equalities.gov.uk/equality_bill.aspx
Lesbian & Gay Foundation
Community Resource Centre
Number 5, Richmond Street,
Manchester M1 3HF
Email: info@lgf.org.uk
Telephone: 0845 3 30 30 30
www.lgf.org.uk
Lesbian & Gay Foundation resource
Enough is Enough! Action against Homophobia
www.lgf.org.uk/assets/Uploads/PDFs/Resources/eie-hate-crime-guide.pdf
Lesbian & Gay Foundation resource
Faithbook: a guide to faith and spirituality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
http://www.lgf.org.uk/faithbook/
NHS North West
3 Piccadilly Place
London Road
Manchester M1 3BN
www.help.northwest.nhs.uk
Stonewall Workplace Guides
Monitoring: how to monitor sexual orientation in the workplace.
Stonewall, 2006
Trans Resource and Empowerment Centre
Email: board@transcentre.org.uk
Telephone: 07513 880647
www.transcentre.org.uk
NHS North West
NHS North West recognises the fundamental importance of embracing the diversity of people from all groups in society, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation or responsibilities as a carer.
As leader of the region’s health economy, we have both legal and moral responsibilities to ensure that the Board and all staff promote equality, fair treatment and social inclusion in everything we do. We support the elimination of unlawful discrimination by ensuring that the values underpinning equality, diversity and human rights are central to our policymaking, employment practices and community involvement.
We also have a lead role in monitoring and influencing the equality performance of NHS organisations in the region – a prerequisite for how they plan and provide high-quality healthcare services for all. Our ambition has been for the NHS to be recognised as a leader on equality and diversity in the workplace. We work to ensure we have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, providing fair, accessible and culturally competent services.
Our equality and diversity strategy and associated work programmes go beyond statutory compliance. They provide a gateway into the many different aspects of promoting equality, valuing diversity and protecting human rights, all of which contribute to our overall vision and purpose.
As the NHS prepares to undergo structural change, we aim to ensure that we preserve all of our achievements in the area of equality and diversity. We are dedicated to embedding a competence-based equality and diversity ethos into the new and emerging NHS organisations, from the point of planning to the moment of implementation.
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation
The Lesbian & Gay Foundation (LGF) is a vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well- established services and a rapidly developing range of new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. We provide support, information and advice on many health and social issues faced by LGB people, as well as tackling continued problems of discrimination and violence. We provide more direct services and resources for more lesbian, gay and bisexual people than any other charity of our kind in the UK.
The LGF has over a decade’s experience in assessing and meeting the changing needs of LGB&T communities and doing this using a range of organisational and governance structures. The LGF is increasingly supporting the work of other LGB&T groups, and continues to have good working relationships with organisations which deliver complementary services and which commission or support the delivery of services to LGB&T people.
We are increasingly invited to provide consultancy, advice and assistance to public sector bodies on the needs and views of LGB communities.
In recent years we have developed a greater role in promoting awareness of the needs and experiences of LGB people and in campaigning for equality. We campaign for a fair and equal society where all lesbian, gay and bisexual people can achieve their full potential, and our mission is: ‘Ending Homophobia, Empowering People’.
