Approved at the Council meeting, 9 October 2025.

This council notes that whilst it is already undertaking many of the actions in Unison’s anti-racism charter, that it has never been more important to make a clear statement of the Council’s opposition to racism in all its forms, and of our clear intent to tackle racism.

This council therefore determines to endorse and implement Unison’s anti-racism charter in full.

Our organisation pledges we will introduce the following ongoing commitments within 12 months of signing:

Our leaders will:

• recognise the need and benefit in championing a racially diverse workforce
• challenge racism internally and externally wherever it arises in relation to the organisation
• recognise the impact of racism upon staff members’ wellbeing
• set and regularly review strategy to improve racial equality, diversity and inclusion so that the organisation reflects the communities it serves

Our organisation will:

• have a clear and visible race equality policy championed by leadership
• have a clear and visible anti-racism programme of initiatives and actions
• undertake equality impact assessments for all strategic-level decisions
• undertake ethnicity pay gap recording and publicly publish results
• undertake workforce ethnicity recording and publicly publish results
• provide unconscious bias and anti-racism training for all staff members
• provide a racism reporting process for notifying, investigating and recording outcomes
• provide robust equality training for managers involved in recruiting, promotions and
• investigating allegations
• provide a wellbeing support facility for staff experiencing racism in the workplace
• be anti-racist, not just non-racist in all we do

Our equality auditing process will review:

• recruitment processes to identify and address race disparities in equality of opportunity
• exit interview results to identify and address race disparities in retention of staff members
• promotional processes to identify and address race disparities in equality of opportunity
• discipline and grievance to identify and address race disparity in outcomes of comparable cases
• policies and research under a duty or commitment to promote solidarity and tackle racism
• our mission, values, and support to removing racial discrimination in all its forms