EDI

As a programme to retrain the Town Hall’s frontline managers is revealed to have been deeply flawed, doubts again surface about how LBWF spends public money

As a programme to retrain the Town Hall’s frontline managers is revealed to have been deeply flawed, doubts again surface about how LBWF spends public money September 26, 2025 Nick Tiratsoo

In the past few years LBWF has vigorously pursued an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) agenda aimed at transforming its internal culture, an agenda that has involved all employees, from top to bottom; cost thousands of pounds; and, because delivered via various kinds of training, eaten up significant amounts of staff time. Little has been said about this agenda in public, but Freedom of Info... »

LBWF’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programme: necessary corrective or self-serving extravagance?

LBWF’s equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programme: necessary corrective or self-serving extravagance? February 18, 2025 Nick Tiratsoo

In the past couple of years, and without much public commentary, the senior management team in LBWF has been seeking to transform the prevailing culture in the Town Hall by introducing and then championing a major equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) programme.  Specifically, the aim has been to ensure that: (a) ‘our workforce reflects the diversity of our community’, on the basis that thi... »