Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy

The Royal National College for the Blind is committed to equality of opportunity and will not tolerate harassment or unfair direct or indirect discrimination on the grounds of any of the nine protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and sexual orientation, or direct or indirect discrimination of any other irrelevant factor.

We respect the dignity and diversity of all our students and employees, regardless of personal characteristics and differences.

It is our aim to give everyone an equal chance to develop and fulfil his or her potential. We value the contribution each person can make to the College. We believe that treating people fairly is right and makes good business sense.

This means that RNC will:

Provide appropriate, sensitive and accessible services to everyone.
Work with communities to eradicate prejudice, discrimination, harassment and negative stereotyping.
Support campaigns for fair laws which treat people equally and protect groups from discrimination.
Ensure that everybody who studies or works at the College is respected and valued.
Promote and support the use of a range of flexible working patterns to enable those working for us to balance home and work responsibilities.
Treat people fairly, irrespective of their working arrangements and develop staff and students so that they are able to reach their full potential.

Single Equality Scheme

In order to support our achievement of these aims, the College has developed its first Single Equality Scheme, building on our existing work to ensure equality is at the centre of everything we do.

Our Single Equality Scheme can be downloaded from the links below and is available as a PDF document and as a Word document.

RNC Single Equality Scheme (PDF)

RNC Single Equality Scheme (Word)