Championing Equality: Our EDI Takeover at the FCA Midlands Management Meeting
Our Practice Transformation and Safeguarding Manager, Nichola, attended the FCA Midlands Management Team meeting, to lead on an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) takeover. Here’s a recap of the day.
We had an agenda and started off reminding ourselves of our FCA Vision, Mission and Values;
- Our Vision – To make a difference to children, young people and families that lasts a lifetime
- Our Mission – We respect and promote a child’s racial, cultural and religious background and consider their gender and sexuality when finding the right family for them. We are proactive in promoting equality and tackling all forms of racism and prejudice in order to help achieve a better society for our children and families to thrive.
- Our Values – Security, safety and autonomy for our children, fostering families and staff.
We then examined our EDI Strategy to ensure we are meeting the needs of our children and young people. Next we reviewed how we are reporting information and ensured we have what we need on the system.
We then talked about some good examples – and that was the best bit! We covered culture, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, religion, gender identity and intersectionality. We have some great examples of how our foster parents and staff have gone above and beyond to ensure our children’s individuality is celebrated. A foster parent teaching English at home while he learns Arabic; our foster parents completing relevant training and doing their own research to support their young people; foster parents moving to another home to give their young person in a wheelchair more space; our participation staff using widgets to get the voice of the child about how they are kept safe and happy….we could have talked all day! Looking at the cross cultural we found even more examples of good practice. We also found ways we could improve and that was the aim of the meeting; we want to grow and develop our inclusivity.
We concluded the meeting with some actions for us all and excited for how we can improve as professionals – and lunch was lovely too!