EDI Annual Report 2023
An ‘at a glance’ summary of our data, achievements and actions in 2023 and our main aims for 2024.
Equalities Pay Gap 2023
This report explains our approach to pay and compares this year’s data with the previous year’s data.
Statement of Principles
Our Statement of Principles is a cornerstone of the behaviours we expect our colleagues to display.
Zero Tolerance Policy
We operate a zero tolerance policy towards behaviour or language a person would deem offensive.
We’re proud to be disability confident committed.
We have committed to:
- Ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
- Communicating and promoting vacancies
- Offering an interview to disabled people
- Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
- Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
- Providing at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.
Committing to a healthier workplace.
Being a great place to work is one of our four ambitious objectives, and we are now proud to be able to say we have recently achieved the Gold award through Better Health at work for all of our health and wellbeing and are striving to continuously improve our health and wellbeing plans.
Armed Forces Covenant
We commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces community.
We recognise the value serving personnel, both regular and reservists, veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.
To demonstrate our commitment, we operate a job interview guarantee scheme whereby veterans will be guaranteed an invitation to the first stage of the selection process if they are able to demonstrate they meet the essential criteria of the person specification for the role.
Creating an inclusive workplace
Culture is incredibly important at Beyond Housing, and it is imperative that every colleague and customer feels included, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion or disabilities.
We are delighted to have achieved this prestigious accreditation, as it demonstrates our commitment to being a diverse employer and a supportive and caring housing provider.
The world is changing, and we want to ensure that everyone we interact with feels included by our policies and culture.
We’re proud to be FREDIE
Equality, diversity and inclusion is all about understanding and accommodating that the modern workforce is made up of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and needs.
FREDIE builds on this by creating a fair working environment, fostering inclusion through identifying common ground and finding opportunities for connection by recognising a fundamental need for respect that all human beings can understand and appreciate.
Fairness | Respect | Equality | Diversity | Inclusion | Engagement.
Supporting Dementia Friendly Communities
We’re proud to be recognised by Dementia Action Teesside as Dementia Friendly.
We strive to support these communities to increase awareness and understanding of dementia so that people with dementia can continue to live in the way they want to and in the community they choose.
Accessibility + Usability = Inclusion
Our website has a great tool bar to make our content more inclusive and better to navigate.
You can use it to:
- Text-to-speech: click on or select any text to hear it read aloud
- Translation: translate content into over 100 languages
- Text magnification: enlarge text and hear it read out loud
- MP3 generation: convert selected text into an MP3 audio file
- Screen mask: reduce glare with a tinted mask
- Web page simplifier: remove clutter from the screen. Display only the main text
- Picture dictionary: displays pictures related to text selected on the page.
Look for the orange ‘Access and language tools’ button at the top of your screen.
