Exclusive: Metropolitan Police HR director advocates accountability through diversity

Increasing diversity in the Metropolitan Police is essential to making it more accountable, says HR director Martin Tiplady.

Selected police forces are guinea pigs for equality standard designed to improve skills and diversity

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is running trials of an equality standard with 11 police forces to help them make better use of resources, increase staff retention and build a more...

Acas guide offers free guide to implementing and monitoring equality and diversity policies

Employment regulations service Acas has launched an equality and diversity guide for employers on the role monitoring plays in the workplace.

Prudential's appointment of a black CEO is a first for a FTSE-100 company

Prudential has made history by appointing the first black chief executive of a FTSE 100 company.

Lamentable lack of ethnic minority head teachers

Local authorities have been accused of not doing enough to support black and minority ethnic (BME) teachers, resulting in a shortage of people from this group in leadership positions.

Prison Service: slow progress on race equality

HM Prison Service reports there has been no transformation in the experience of black and minority ethnic staff and prisoners over the past five years despite putting significant systems and process...

Ethnic minorities urged not to join the Met

Black police officers have launched a recruitment boycott of the Metropolitan Police Service.

UK diversity management: "superficial at best"

Diversity remains a tick-box activity rather than a strategic imperative, according to research just published by the CIPD.

Microsoft rewards diversity in the legal profession

Microsoft has launched a bonus scheme for its lawyers and for the external law firms it uses, to promote diversity.

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Business agrees diversity makes good corporate sense

Workplace diversity delivers real business benefits, according to a joint CBI and TUC report.

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Met makes great strides forward in workplace diversity

The proportion of ethnic minorities employed by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has more than doubled from 3.9% in 2000 to 8.5% in 2008, while the number of female police officers has risen from...

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IiP-accredited firms worse than others at training minorities

Minority groups are more likely to lose out on training provision at Investors in People (IiP)-accredited workplaces than elsewhere.

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