The United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality (UKCAE) Pathway

The United Kingdom Council for Access and Equality is formulating through cross-community consultation, a 3-step Pathway that will provide awareness, understanding, knowledge and the necessary skills to enable any organisation to understand the requirements of all equality legislation, and will assist them in adopting procedures and implementing systems that will promote diversity and inclusion and achieve real change in the workplace.

The Pathway process is proportionate and consistent and will assess, improve and measure change to procedures and practices in order to help businesses meet the on-going challenge of their legal obligations and therefore to implement real, measurable change in the workplace.

The Pathway is unique in that it applies to everyone within an organisation: it is not simply a check-list or best practice benchmark - it is an informative learning process targeted to actively build skills and knowledge at all levels. It is not a prescriptive process, and each user, irregardless of sector or size, can formulate its own solutions within the framework referring to the resources provided.

The Pathway will commence upon registration of UKCAE membership and its inbuilt audit trail and requirement for publication ensures transparency and accountability. Each of the three Steps has to be successfully completed before the awarding of the UKCAE Mark.

UKCAE is working with the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) who will formally authorise and recognise the UKCAE Pathway as a process that can be used for certification purposes.