Diversity, inclusion and anti-racism – Resources

Health and Care Professions Council standards

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of proficiency on equality, diversity and non-discrimination set out expectations the profession must adhere to.

• RCSLT guidance to meet HCPC standards
• Meeting the HCPC standards

External resources

e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH)

• Cultural competence e-learning – The first two modules are aimed at all healthcare professionals. The first session aims to describe what is meant by ‘culture’ and why it is important for health professionals to be aware of how this can impact health. The second session describes cultural competence and its importance for health professionals working across cross-cultural situations.The third session is aimed solely at midwives.
• Leadership for clinicians e-learning – Designed to support clinicians, of all professions, to develop an understanding of their role in contributing to the management and leadership of healthcare services.
• Freedom to Speak Up programme – An online training programme aimed at helping healthcare workers to understand the vital role they can play to support a culture of speaking up in the workplace.

NHS

• Clinical leadership – a framework for action – A 2019 guide for senior leaders on developing professional diversity at board level from NHS Improvement.
• NHS Leadership Academy – A set of leadership programmes for healthcare professionals at every level, including resources and actions for inclusion, equality and diversity.

Tiny Happy People

The BBC’s Tiny happy people initiative focuses on language development for children in the UK. The website includes guidance, resources and activities to help parents develop their child’s language and communication skills. See also:

• RCSLT news story, 10 September 2020
• Bulletin article: March 2020, p16 (PDF)

Sage journals

Through the RCSLT’s Sage research methods package, members can access the following titles and chapters for free:

• Jackson, P (2000) Race and racism. In: Research training for social scientists, p 49-58.
• Johns, T (2008) Learning to Love Our Black Selves: Healing from Internalized Oppressions. In: Peter Reason, and Hilary Bradbury (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Action Research (2nd ed), p 473-486.
• Vavrus, M (2017) A Decolonial Alternative to Critical Approaches to Multicultural and Intercultural Teacher Education. In: The SAGE Handbook of Research on Teacher Education, p 473-490.

We will be working with members to identify gaps in the guidance and resources currently available, as well as barriers to implementation.

Putting in the work: An anti-racist reading and resource list

Articles

• The Guardian: Young, British and black – the voices behind the UK’s anti-racism protests
• CNN: Employees are tired of companies paying lip service to diversity
• Fast Company: How to be a less biased version of yourself
• Fast Company: How to confirm bias without alienating people
• Harvard Business Review: How leaders around the world build trust across cultures
• Medium: How to make this moment the turning point for real change
• Medium: Letter to a white man
• The Atlantic: America’s racial contract is showing
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (PDF) by Peggy McIntosh
• Medium: Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?

Videos

• Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement documentary (2016)
• TED Talks: Baratunde Thurston – How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
• TED Talks: Megan Ming Francis – Let’s get to the root of racial injustice
• Unfiltered with James O’Brien: Rapper, poet and scholar Akala deconstructs race, class, and Britain’s modern myths
• CrashCourse: Racial/Ethnic prejudice and discrimination
• The New York Times: A conversation about growing up black
• Big Think: Robin DiAngelo – Being nice is not going to end racism
• Color of Change: Tell Black stories

Books

• Springer Nature research publisher – A collection of books, articles and journals that endorse the statement Black Lives Matter
• Cambridge University Press – Protests, policing and race collection
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
• Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Whitewashing Britain: Race and citizenship in the postwar era by Kathleen Paul
• White Fragility: Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo
• How to be less stupid about race by Crystal M Fleming
• Natives: Race and class in the ruins of Empire by Akala
• So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
• White Rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Carol Anderson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the age of colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
• Raising Free People: Unschooling As Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards
• Speech and Language Therapy and Professional Identity: Challenging Received Wisdom by Jane Stokes and Marian McCormick

For families and children

Videos

• NYU Langone Health: Talking to children about racism
• TED Talks: Biz Lindsay-Ryan – Why we need to talk to children about race and difference

Charities

• Black Lives Matter UK
• Show Racism the Red Card
• Runnymede
• Blueprint for all (formerly known as Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust)
• Stand Up to Racism
• SARI Stand Against Racism and Inequality
• Black Thrive – a partnership for black wellbeing