Corporate Equality Objecvtives

The RCN’s corporate equalities, diversity and human rights strategy aims to enable the RCN to achieve the following equality objectives.

Objective 1: 

Organisational focus: Renew corporate equalities strategy in line with the next iteration of the RCN corporate strategy/strategic plan.

Objective 2: 

Driving enforcement: Ensure that those organisations subject to the Equality Duty and equalities legislation across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland comply with their various provisions

Objective 3:  

Supporting diverse leadership: Add value and/or develop a range of support networks for under-represented senior and emergent leaders throughout the nursing community.

Objective 4:  

Building capacity: Add Build the capacity of accredited representatives/activists as well as RCN officers, assistant officers in appropriately identifying, responding and challenging discrimination in the workplace.

Objective 5:

Celebrating good practice: Publicly acknowledging innovative work around equality and human rights management across the nursing sector

Objective 6: 

Governing and governance: Improving the representation of visibly diverse groups throughout the governing structure and in governance roles:

Objective 7:  
Balancing competing equality claims: Defining a clear statement of our values around equality, inclusion and human rights and the management of potentially competing equality claims.

For more information, please contact the RCN Diversity team at diversity.team@rcn.org.uk