All staff and those representing UKROEd in whatever capacity, are committed to creating equality of opportunity and preventing inequality in all our working practices.
We promise to challenge injustice, ensure fairness and to uphold anti-racist principles.
We recognise that many races and ethnicities, particularly Black and people of dual heritage, continue to experience disadvantages and barriers which we will challenge and eliminate.
We have a zero-tolerance approach to racism. We promise to act with courage, take responsibility for our actions and we will proactively seek to interrogate why disadvantages and barriers exist, to understand trauma, and to recognise the burden on those with lived experience, and we will take action where possible to remove these or reduce their impact. This includes actively building a positive environment where everyone, especially people of colour, feels involved and included. We will overtly challenge racist actions and attitudes, both inside the organisation, our stakeholders and those we come into contact with. We understand harm can be caused inadvertently: when we make mistakes, we will not hide them, but seek to learn and share that learning.
These are the expectations we have of all those working for and representing UKROEd in whatever capacity in order to ensure an anti-racist organisation.
