Overcoming discrimination: RCN Northern Region Black History Month conference
23 Oct 2025, 09:30 - 16:00
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Celebrate #BHM25 with the RCN Northern Region by attending this conference, packed with fascinating sessions.
The key programme topics are outlined below. Mark the date firmly in your calendars, and book your free place ASAP.
Programme
| 9:30 am | Arrival and refreshments | |
| 10:00 am | Opening Address |
Sarah Dodsworth, Regional Director, RCN Northern and Yorkshire & the Humber regions |
| 10:05 am | Resilience workshop | |
| 10:50 am | Skilled Worker Visa: Current legal landscape and proposed changes | Sophia Barrett - Senior Immigration Adviser and Solicitor, RCN Member Support Services |
| 11:30 am | Break | |
| 11:45 am | Addressing workplace incivility | Bruno Daniel, Inclusion Programme Lead, RCN Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 pm | Overcoming Discrimination- taking a look at the employment law framework |
Emma Greenbank, Senior Legal Officer, Royal College of Nursing |
| 2:15 pm | Break | |
| 2:30 pm | RCN Library and Museum |
Joseph Dempster, Customer Services Information Specialist |
| 3:15 pm | Closing remarks |
The library session will stand you in great stead for the future. Using the day's topics as a prompt, participants will take a look at using library resources and services and learn how to find books about personal resilience from our modern collections, find articles about tribunal cases in historic journals, get support from the RCN librarians, and get started with subject guides for reps and activists. The RCN library is the largest nursing library collection in Europe, with many of the publications available electronically as part of your membership benefits once you know how to access them, so it's well worth learning about.
Booking
You can book online, or call our Events Registration Team on 02920 546460 or email eventsreg@rcn.org.uk quoting event number 5342. There are only 25 spaces so don't delay - book today.
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Tell your friends and colleagues - tell everyone who you think may be interested in this event. It would really help if you could find a place to display this event poster on a noticeboard in your workplace.
For more information please send an email FAO Gail Hodgson to
the northern regional office
northern.region@rcn.org.uk
The Bannatyne Hotel
Southend Avenue
Darlington
DL37HZ.
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