Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Managers
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With this Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Managers course discover how to create an inclusive working environment and the benefits of implementing a comprehensive ED&I strategy within your business. You will gain knowledge of what equality, diversity and inclusion means and the differences between each term.
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1 Hour
Accreditation: CPD Certified
Certificate: Self-Printed Certificate
Last Updated: 27th February 2026
Description
As a manager you will be responsible for implementing equality, diversity and inclusion policies within your organisation.
You also may be involved in recruitment or handling grievance and disciplinary matters so it’s important to understand these key subjects and how to how to live and breathe an ED&I strategy within your business.
Our 60-minute online equality, diversity and inclusion for managers course explores these three related, but different areas, imparting valuable insights which will increase any manager’s confidence in the topics.
This course uses various interactions to help engage you and make the learning interesting. These include:
- Interactive challenges
- Character led scenarios
- Talking head case studies
- Action planning
- Kinetic text animations
- Post-course self-assessment
Self-assessment
At the beginning of the course learners will be asked five simple questions to understand their “confidence level”, which enables learners to assess their own awareness levels in the topic area. The same five questions will be asked at the end of the training, which will hopefully reflect an improvement in confidence.
On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.
Learning Outcomes for this course include:
- Explain the terms ‘equality’, ‘equity’, ‘belonging’, ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’
- Outline the differences between equality, equity, diversity and inclusion
- Define the legal requirement of equality, diversity and inclusion
- Explain how to create and implement and inclusive working environment leading to a sense of belonging
- List the benefits of implementing a comprehensive EDI strategy within your business
- Outline the other flexible working policies that could be available to you
- Explain how to live and breathe the EDI strategy within your business
Accreditation
The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
Certification
After completing this course, you will be able to download and print a Virtual College certificate for your records.
Duration
60 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.
Target Audience
This training is designed for any manager in a business setting whether that’s in an office or working from home.
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Frameworks
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Managers course is mapped to the Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework and Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework.
The training is regularly updated to meet the latest requirements and standards of the frameworks.
What are the Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework and Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Frameworks?
Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework
The Core Skills Training Framework sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and is linked to relevant legislation or expert guidance.
It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers. We have mapped our eLearning courses to the learning objectives within the Core Skills Training Framework, to give organisations the confidence that they can use the eLearning as a foundation for their wider training programmes.
Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework
The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework.
It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.
EDI Training Courses
We offer a wide variety of EDI courses to suit different audiences, take a look to find the one best suited to you:
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for Employees - aimed at any employee in business settings
- Statutory & Mandatory Training: Equality, Diversity and Human Rights - designed for anyone working in healthcare in either a clinical or non-clinical role
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Health & Social Care - built for care workers and support workers or anyone working in a social care setting looking to complete their annual refresher training
What you'll learn
- About the terms ‘equality’, 'equity', ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’#
- The differences between equality, diversity and inclusion
- How to define the legal requirements of equality, diversity and inclusion
- How to create and implement an inclusive working environment
- The benefits of implementing a comprehensive ED&I strategy within your business
- Additional ED&I policies that demonstrate a strong ED&I strategy
- How to live and breathe the ED&I strategy within your business
Suitable for
- This course is designed for any manager in a business setting whether that’s in an office or working at home
Certification
Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out by Royal Mail delivery.
Self-Printed Certificate Option
Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.
Recommended renewal: 3 years
Whilst none of our certificates have an expiry date it is strongly recommended that the training is completed every three years. This is based on industry best practice to ensure awareness and knowledge of the latest guidance and legislation.
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