SAS
RIGHTS & Saima Afzal Solutions She Dared : She
Won
Equality & Human Rights Advice/Research & Training
Products
We provide a wide range of products to suit a variety of budgets and tastes. Our most popular products are shown below. Please call us for more information on products, current promotions and custom options.
Training
Stimulating Debate
Discussion Sessions
2 to 3 hour sessions to ensure frank and honest discussions take place around current diversity issues or areas of concern for the organisation or the community you provide a service to. Unrestricted debate and dialogue can aid the improvement and compliance of equality and Human Rights legislation, whilst also helping to eliminate any misunderstandings that may be allowed to fester or become culturally embedded when open and honest conversation is not encouraged.
Power point presentations
A quick an effective method to allow participants to be made aware of key elements of the law and also have an opportunity to ask questions in order to seek clarification.
Case Studies
Generic equality issues as dealt with through case law are explored and understanding/awareness of legal decisions is communicated to the participants. Areas where no case law exists and areas of concern for the organisation can be dealt as case studies for participants to work through and feedback on. Participants will be given best practice guidance on resolving the area of concern and avoiding non-compliance of equality and human rights legislation.
Mentoring
One-to-one access to advice via e-mail or telephone to assist participant/s in resolving or working through ‘live’ work based scenario/s. This will assist individuals in complying with legal/organisational/business policies and procedures.
Shadowing
Consultant/s can work with an
individual on a variety of issues as defined by the
organisation/individual. As an aspect of the shadowing process the
consultant/s can impact assess all procedures to ensure that
reasonable measures are put in place to comply with
legal/organisational and business requirements. The 'shadowing'
process which involves making observations can be a useful tool to
help an individual/organisation eliminate practices that do not
benefit the business needs and ultimately this can assist in
releasing efficiency savings for any forward thinking
organisation.
On-line-courses
Courses can be created that are bespoke to the organisation, or generic awareness courses can be created. All staff can complete the course to ensure legal training requirements for diversity and equality awareness have been met. Courses can be assessed by trained supervisors, by external assessors or even trained volunteers from the community.
CD based
courses
CD based coursed can be created
that are bespoke to the organisation, or a generic awareness course
that all staff should complete to ensure legal requirements for
diversity and equality awareness have been met. Courses can be
assessed by trained supervisors, by external assessors or even
trained volunteers from the community.
Training Booklet
Training booklets can be created
that are bespoke to the organisation or a generic awareness booklet
that all staff are provided as a resource that they can access
should they require it, to help assist them in ensuring legal
requirements for diversity and Human Rights are being
met.
Role plays
Trained actors or community
volunteers will present a scenario that participants will be asked
to attempt to manage and deal with as a 'live' situation that they
are being presented with. Peer and facilitator feedback is provided
during the role play session, positive feedback as well as where
areas of improvement or learning are identified will be verbally
provided to the individual or the group participating in the role
play activity. If required written feedback can also be provided by
the facilitator
Phone Seminars
Bespoke or generic discussions
can be presented to an organisation via the use of a telephone
/internet access. Participants can engage in discussion on a
subject matter with an expert to discuss current issues and raise
awareness of diversity and equality issues. The number of
participants is potentially limitless. An outline of the
discussion will be presented to the participants via e-mail prior
to the event, questions can be e-mailed during the seminar and as
many questions as possible will be answered. Discussions usually
last up to an hour. This is a cheap and effective method of raising
awareness on a large scale. A minimum of 15 participants would be
required per phone seminar.
Phone seminars can also be utilised in order to engage with a person from the community; a volunteer or an individual whom the organisation wishes to engage with in order to explore and understand different cultural/religious values and beliefs or perspectives.
The use of volunteers from the community can help build confidence within the local community and can also help empower local communities particularly those communities that face discrimination and barriers in accessing opportunities and engaging with your organisation.
Training Handouts/Updates
After initial training handouts can be e-mailed/ presented by any of the above means to ensure staff are aware of current developments and best practice in diversity, equality and Human Rights related issues.
Research
We can conduct research into any subject matter, our research techniques include.
Live Research:
Vox populi, questionnaires, focus groups, on-line surveys.
Peer Research:
Peer research comes with
multiple community benefits as locally trained peer researchers
ensure that meaningful engagement and local consultation occurs as
well as ensuring that local people are empowered and gain valuable
communication and research skills that they can utilise in future
employment opportunities.
Produce Information DVD's/Videos
We can film & produce information DVD's/Videos on any Equality, Diversity and Human Rights subject matter. We have an in-house filming & production team that is made up of young people working alongside professionally trained filming experts, this approach allows us to keep our costs at a very competitive level whilst ensuring young people gain valuable skills that allow them to add to their personal portfolios and potentially gain access to permanent job opportunities in their locality.
Generic or
bespoke videos that highlight how to deal with diversity and
equality issues can be created, often scenarios played out on
screen by actors or community volunteers are used as a training
tool/technique to help educate participants on how to effectively
deal with situations that impact on diversity equality and Human
Rights. Participants usually always value the
interactive and visual approach that enables learning in a
more creative environment.
Conduct Investigations
We can conduct internal investigations & audits to help you improve how you deliver your services. We can also conduct fact finding excercises and conduct reviews into individual cases relating to disciplinary and conduct matters. We can help assist you in establishing the facts of any given complaint or allegation presented to the Complaints/Professional Standards and/or Human Resources department.