Equality and Diversity Policy

This policy aims to protect staff, learners and any related third party from discrimination. Coach Centered Limited aims to prevent any discrimination related to the nine protected characteristics within the Equality Act 2010, which are age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Coach Centered Limited is responsible for ensuring that this policy is published, implemented and accessible to all personnel, learners and any relevant third parties. The Head of Centre will also ensure that all personnel have read and understood this policy and that any amendments to the policy are communicated to relevant parties.

Different types of discrimination

Direct discrimination
Where someone is treated less favourably than another person because of a protected characteristic.

Discrimination by perception
A person being treated differently due to others thinking they have a disability when they do not.

Indirect discrimination
A person or organisation has arrangements in place that seem to treat everyone in an equal, non-discriminatory way but these arrangements put people with the same disability at a disadvantage to others who do not have a disability.

Harassment
Behaviour that is deemed offensive by the recipient. This could be a person creating an environment that is intimidating, degrading, offensive because to people with a disability.

Victimisation
When an organisation puts a person at a disadvantage because they have made an allegation or supported an allegation about discrimination.

Coach Centered Limited aims to promote equal opportunities and eliminate discrimination by:

  • Ensuring that all staff, learners and any related third parties are treated equally at all times.

  • Ensuring that all staff are responsible for creating an open and friendly learning environment.

  • Ensuring that staff selected for employment will be on the basis of aptitude and ability.

  • Ensuring that a learner enrolling onto a course meet the pre-requisites of the course

  • Ensuring that learners are aware of the access arrangement (special consideration/ reasonable adjustments) procedures offered by the centre to support learners with their assessment

  • Taking all allegations or incidents of discrimination seriously and responding to them swiftly.

  • Ensuring a zero tolerance on any acts of discrimination on the nine protected characteristics outlined in the Equality Act 2010.