Reviewing your policies
What you will learn in this chapter
- Steps for reviewing your policies
- How Scope's review can help
The first step is to review your current policies and procedures to see if they are inclusive.
The second step is to monitor the impact of policies. Collect and analyse data across the organisation on:
- attraction
- recruitment
- selection
- retention
- progression
The need to collect this data is increasing. The Government has insisted on gender pay gap reporting. It is encouraging reporting on the ethnicity pay gap. As we strive towards equality for all, we hope disability pay gap reporting won’t be far behind.
Make sure that your policies and procedures can keep up to date with employment law.
See our Recruitment toolkit on how to implement these effectively.
Scope’s review of your organisation
The Workplace Disability Inclusion Programme includes a review of your policies and procedures.
During the review, you need to consider how inclusive your organisation is. It will help you to discover:
- how well your organisation reflects the disabled population
- the level of understanding within management and other employees
This will enable you to identify areas that need training and resources.
Analysing data can help benchmark inclusivity against all the protected characteristics:
- disability
- age
- ethnicity
- gender reassignment
- sexual orientation
- religion
- sex
- pregnancy and maternity
- marriage or civil partnership (employment only)