Please can you
1. Confirm whether your organisation applied to be part of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index in A) 2018 (for 2019), B) 2019 (for 2020) or C) 2021 (for 2022) (NB the index was suspended in 2020/21 because of Covid)
2. Give details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 whether or not as payment for goods or services.
3. State whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.
If the answer to any part of 1 is yes please supply:
4. Any application you made in 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 to be included on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.
5. Any feedback you received in 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme. This must include the priorities or objectives written by your organisation’s representative at the end of the feedback form (under the heading ‘Priorities for the year ahead’ in 2019; ‘Your priorities’ in 2020).
Thank you for your recent request dated 01 August 2022. Please find the responses to your questions below:
1. Confirm whether your organisation applied to be part of the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index in A) 2018 (for 2019), B) 2019 (for 2020) or C) 2021 (for 2022) (NB the index was suspended in 2020/21 because of Covid)
We can confirm that we took part in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index for all three of these.
2. Give details of the total amount of money you paid to Stonewall in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 whether or not as payment for goods or services.
2018 – £2500 for Diversity Champions Membership
2019 - £2500 for Diversity Champions Membership, £675 for conference tickets
2020 – £2500 for Diversity Champions Membership
2021 – £2500 for Diversity Champions Membership, £1500 for LGBTQ+ Mental Health sessions
3. State whether you intend to continue your membership of any Stonewall scheme in the future, and if so which.
If the answer to any part of 1 is yes please supply:
We have not yet decided if we are going to continue our membership of the Diversity Champions Scheme. We re-joined in June 2022 but will make a decision as to whether we continue for next year in Spring 2023. We have not participated in the Stonewall Workplace Equality index this year (2022/23).
3. Any application you made in 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 to be included on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, including any attachments or appendices to those applications. Please redact personal details if necessary.
We do not have copies of our submissions, as the information is entered directly onto the Stonewall Portal.
It has not been possible to locate all of the attachments that we have submitted as evidence, as these run into the hundreds for the past three years, and would take several weeks working solely on this to locate and send the documents.
We have been able to locate and attach the following:
• Zero tolerance Statement
• Top Tips for LGBT Allies Factsheet
• Raising Awareness – Bisexuality Factsheet
• Respect & Resolution Policy
• Copy of advert in Fyne Times Magazine
• LGBT+ Mental Health slides
• Screenshot of Call It Out Anti Bullying Campaign News Story
• Staff Survey 2020 Results broken down by Sexual Orientation
5. Any feedback you received in 2018/19 or 2019/20 or 2021/22 from Stonewall in relation to either application or programme. This must include the priorities or objectives written by your organisation’s representative at the end of the feedback form (under the heading ‘Priorities for the year ahead’ in 2019; ‘Your priorities’ in 2020).
We have attached the feedback reports for 2019, 2020 & 2022. We have never completed the priorities section of these feedback reports, as we decide on our priorities independently
John Lawson
Head of Information Governance
Public Health Wales NHS Trust
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