Case Study - Keepmoat Ltd / Frank Haslam Milan

Background

Championing Diversity was a West Yorkshire wide programme offered to employers to help them develop their management of diversity. This included an assessment of the company’s progress to date and extensive help over 18 months to move them in the direction they wanted to be in the future.

The Organisation

Shaping the companies into ‘Champions of Diversity’ in their industry, the programme worked with Susanne Spear, Brand HR Manager at Frank Haslam Milan to develop their approach to diversity. Frank Haslam Milan is part of the Keepmoat Group - the awardwinning leader in the delivery of community regeneration, which is providing thousands of new and improved homes across a huge swathe of northern and central England. Working in partnership, FHM provides new and improved homes as part of a comprehensive and flexible package of housing support services to help build strong, dynamic and sustainable communities.

Impact "It has been positive in helping us develop the action plan, and our next steps with reference to the EOD strategy."

What did we do?

• Published the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Strategy • Carried out training and awareness sessions for Managing Directors • Identified Director level champions

What did we learn?

We have had to rethink how we structure and lead EOD across the company We need to introduce Diversity Champions We recognize that it must be lead from the top We also need to ensure that we look at the supply chain as well as us as employers