Swiis Training Courses

Culture, Diversity and Equality Awareness

Understanding discrimination, diversity, inclusion, and identity.

This training is designed to provide a clear understanding of discrimination, diversity, inclusion, and identity. It covers key history, racism, extremism, and movements like Black Lives Matter, alongside the Equality Act and Human Rights. Professionals learn to recognise bias, microaggressions, stereotyping, and intersectionality while building practical skills to support cultural identity, neurodiversity, disability, and gender‑diverse young people. The aim is to promote equality and create an inclusive, respectful environment for all.

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Swiis Offers Expert Training to Meet Your Organisation’s Needs

Swiis Training offers flexible, bespoke courses, delivered in person or via webinar. Led by expert trainers, all training can be tailored to your needs, meets regulatory standards, is CPD-accredited, and reflects the trusted quality and expertise of the Swiis group.

  • Bespoke Training
  • Experienced Trainers
  • Flexible Training
  • Yearly Course Updates
  • Excellent Support
  • Part of the Swiis Family

Course Content

This course will discuss a variety of topics including:

  • Looking at historical context and significant dates
  • Exploring the rise of, and how to end hate crimes, racism and extremism
  • Understanding Black Lives Matter and white privilege
  • Equality overview: The Human Rights Act and The Equality Act
  • Considering Discrimination and equality
  • Examining bias, microaggressions and stereotyping
  • Navigating language and the intersectional approach
  • Learning how to support Neurodiverse children and young people
  • Supporting those with disabilities
  • Recognising gender diversity
  • Promoting diversity

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Gain an overview of the history and significant dates linked culture, diversity and equality
  • Gain an understanding of hate, racism and extremism and explore how to put an end to this
  • Understand history of Black Lives Matter and white privilege
  • Understand the key principles of the Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010 and the protected characteristics
  • Examine key messages from research and consider how the UK is trying to address prejudice and discrimination
  • Explore conscious and unconscious bias, stereotyping and microaggressions
  • Reflect on the importance of language
  • Explore intersectionality and how to adopt an intersectional approach
  • Considerations of looking after a child from a different ethnicity and culture
  • Explore how foster carers can teach children about diversity and inclusion and promote culture, diversity and equality within the foster placement
  • Understand neurodiversity and importance of embracing difference
  • Explore how to support LGBTQ+ children
  • Gain an overview of the prejudice faced by children in care and question how their life chances could be improved

Benefits of the Course

  • CPD Accredited
  • Qualified expert trainers
  • Updates in line with current regulations and policies
  • Flexible delivery options: face-to-face or webinar
  • Industry recognised certification

CPD Verified Training

All our courses are CPD verified and reviewed annually by leading subject matter experts. Each programme is refreshed with the latest research and best practice, ensuring you receive training that’s accurate, relevant, and consistently up to date.

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“The trainer was brilliant. Navigating her way around some heavy subjects really well and encouraging contributions at the right times. This helped the webinar flow and keep everyone engaged.”

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“It was great training and delivered in calm sensitive and compassionate way.”

Foster Carer

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