Dear Susanna,

At the University of Westminster, we currently have an Employee Relations Adviser
(Diversity) post which I am currently doing, plus we have just appointed someone to take the
lead on managing the impact assessment process under the RRAA..  Both these posts are
based in the HR department.  Additionally, we have a couple of Disability Advisers and a
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities (CCPD).  To put these posts into context, we
have around 22,000 students and over 2,500 members of staff.

Hope this helps.

Good luck with getting more resources!

Fehmeeda


On 9 Aug 2004 at 11:15, Virginia Wainwright wrote:

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> Dear Susanna,
>
> Here at KCL we have 4 staff in the Equality and Diversity Department,
> though two are primarily for disability support. Apart from me, we have
> an administrator, who also deals with the students with disabilities
> appointments, etc., so I am the only one with a remit to cover all EO
> policy issues. We deal with both staff and student equalities issues
> and are not based in HR. We also have a large involvement in staff EO
> training.
>
> There are over 5,000 staff here and over 19,000 students.
>
> Regards,
>
> Virginia
>
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:50:05 +0100 Susanna Hancock <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, all,Sometime ago somebody on the list did some research in to how he
> > institutions were staffing their EO work.  Could that person, or other
> > people who know, let me know how  many staff Heis are giving to this
> > really important work.
> >
> > At MU, I am the only member of staff working on these issues, and,
> > frankly, I just feelso demoralised, eventhough we have won a couple of
> > awards this year, and been quoted in the press, in a nice way!
> >
> > So I'm preparinbg a paper for EO committee, and any info you can give me
> > about how many staff there ar in your EO unit, or how many people are
> > workingon EO issues, would be really helpful.  I don't think, really,
> > that my paper  will result in more staff, not even one, but I'm  going
> > to get the committee to recommend something.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Susanna.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Katie Edwards
> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:53 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Positive Action Strategy
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >  I hope you are well and enjoying the warm weather.
> >
> > I am currently working on a Positive Action Strategy looking at all
> > areas of equality and what we the Institute should be doing now and in
> > the future. I visualise this being split into 3 sections, recruitment,
> > retention and progression and including best practice examples as well.
> >
> > Has anyone else been working on any similar documents? Any thoughts or
> > feedback would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > With thanks
> > Katie Edwards
> > Equalities Officer
> > Institute of Education
> > University of London
> >
> > 020 7612 6321
> > [log in to unmask]
>
> ----------------------
> Virginia M Wainwright
> Director of Equality and Diversity
> King's College London
> James Clerk Maxwell Building
> 57 Waterloo Road
> London SE1 8WA
> 020 7848 3399
> [log in to unmask]

Fehmeeda Riaz
Employee Relations Adviser (Diversity)
University of Westminster
HR Department
9-18 Euston Centre
Tel: 0207-911-5776