Foreword

Celebrating diversity in all its forms is a key component of how we work as a specialist mental health, learning disability and substance misuse trust. Valuing, sharing, highlighting and embracing diversity and ensuring that our services, approach and care is always focused on ensuring equality,
diversity and inclusion is fundamental to us. I am therefore delighted to be able to share with you our five year inclusive strategy.

This strategy reiterates our promise to tackle inequalities and promote equality, diversity and inclusion and human rights with the highest possible standards of care and outcomes for everyone creating a better working environment for staff. KMPT is committed to build on the existing work already achieved and look to be ambitious and uncompromising in furthering our goals to achieve a truly inclusive workforce and range of services.

We will continue to monitor our equality, diversity and inclusion objectives with rigour involving those we serve, our, stakeholders, partners and staff to ensure transparency, accountability and tangible progress.

We look forward to continuing the conversation and to developing our inclusive objectives with you. Together we will work towards a representative workforce that is able to provide the quality, the dignity and respect and to deliver above and beyond our statutory duty to:

• Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation on and other conduct that is prohibited by the Act
• Advancing equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not
• Fostering good relations between people who share protected characteristics and those who do not.

Helen Greatorex
Chief Executive