The Diversity Trust, working in partnership with the Substance Misuse Team at Bristol City Council, has launched a new resource for the substance misuse sector in the city. The Step By Step Guide to Achieving the Equality Standard is a guide for service providers to help meet the Equality Standard which we published previously in 2013/14. The new guide is designed as a practical tool to support organisations to meet the Equality Act 2010, the Equality Duty and includes Indicators of Cultural Competence. The guide is part of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit.

Berkeley Wilde, Director of the Diversity Trust, said: “We have been working with the Substance Misuse Team at Bristol City Council since 2009 and last year we brought together this work into a toolkit for services. This new resource acts as a practical guide to support organisations in their work. We hope that services will continue to use the toolkit and that the new guide will help. The idea behind the guide is that you have a manual to help you to assess how well you are doing in meeting the Equality Standard and has been produced to compliment the Standard.”

“If organisations require more specialist input then they can work with us to use the guide to increase cultural competence.”

Download the PDF of the Guide click here

The Diversity Trust has published a new report exploring the experiences of older gay and bisexual men living in rural communities in Somerset. The report includes case studies, and biographies of older gay and bisexual men, and makes a number of recommendations for service providers to increase accessibility and remove barriers to services for the community.

A new report by the Diversity Trust explores the key areas of discrimination and inequality, as well as the positive experiences LGBTQ young people have, of living in the area.

We have carried out a review of sexual health services for Somerset Partnership NHS Trust. The review included an audit of services, as well as work with young people in different settings, to explore improving access to services in the area. The review focussed on the experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans young people in the county.

We have launched a new report on access to substance misuse services by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans communities in Bristol. The report highlights the need for specialist and targeted services to improve the reach to LGB and Trans communities in Bristol.

A new report by the Diversity Trust, working in collaboration with Bath Spa University and Bath and North East Somerset Council, explores key areas of health inequality and discrimination, as well as the positive experiences LGB and Trans people have of living in the area.

In April 2012 NHS Somerset and Somerset LINk jointly commissioned the Diversity Trust to research the experiences of health and social care with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans (LGB&T) communities in Somerset.

A new report is published today which highlights the health and wellbeing needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans people in South Gloucestershire.