1. IEDP Code of Professional Practice
The consultation closed on 28 February 2011. The results of the consulation will be placed here shortly.
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2. IEDP Membership, Competencies & Assessment Framework for Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Practitioners.
Consultation closed on 30 April 2010
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(The results of this consultation will be placed here shortly)
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3. Inaugural consultation with IEDP members held in Spring 2009
This consultation followed the inaugural meeting of the Institute in January 2009. It was concerned with the proposed functions of the Institute and the draft competencies drawn up by the Learning and Skills Council following their research project and published in their report in December 2007.
12 responses were received.
3 responses were fully supportive of all the proposals.
1 response queried the need for a new institute and felt that there would be a lot of overlap with existing organisations.
8 responses were supportive in principle but made a number of comments and suggestions as summarised below.
- Definitions of membership should be more inclusive, recognise a diversity of roles and not be dependent on management experience in a large organisation.
- Levels of membership should not be dependent on management experience and should be kept simple.
- The balance between knowledge and practice should place more emphasis on practice.
- Draft competencies are too detailed, cumbersome and not user friendly; many are generic to good managers and not fully focussed on equality and diversity.
- Assessment will be difficult and concern was expressed about who would carry it out, how it would be done, whether there would be arrangements for appeals.
- The emphasis of the Institute should be on individual practitioners and support for them.
Response of the Board
The Board has taken serious note of these comments and suggestions; they are of particular value to the work of the Standards and Products Working Group which is working on the next stage of the proposed arrangements and procedures.
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