Promoting equality, respecting diversity and ensuring Inclusion

At Dimensions, our vision for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is fundamental to everything we do and aligns with values: Respect, Courage, Integrity, Partnership, and Ambition.

At Dimensions, we strive to create an inclusive culture and workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging irrespective of their individual characteristics. We have therefore developed an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) strategy to support our journey in promoting EDI, for everyone.

Our annual EDI report highlighting progress over the last year can be viewed here.

We are proud to report on our gender pay gap and ethnicity pay gap that positively demonstrate equity for both demographics with a zero-mean difference in our ethnicity pay gap and a 1.6% mean difference in our gender pay gap.

Our Great Places to Work survey results demonstrate our commitment to equity, respect and inclusion. For the seventh year running the EDI related questions have been the highest scoring results. Of the 36% of colleagues who completed the survey

• 95% felt treated fairly in relation to their sexual orientation
• 93% felt treated fairly in relation to their religion, beliefs or non-beliefs
• 92% felt treated fairly in relation to their gender
• 91% felt treated fairly in relation to their race or ethnic origin
• 91% felt treated fairly in relation to their disability

Meet some of our colleagues who testify that Dimensions values them:

We uphold a clear zero-tolerance policy against discrimination and commit to not being bystanders. In collaboration with our EDI team, we have an active network of Diversity Champions who support our EDI initiatives, review policies for equality impact, and help shape our strategic priorities.

As a Disability Confident Leader we use positive action in our recruitment practices to recruit and retain colleagues with a disability. We have a reasonable adjustment process to ensure colleagues receive the support they need to be able to be their best selves, with a dedicated budget for reasonable adjustments.

We recognise the importance of setting ambitious goals for inclusion and equity and are committed to challenging targets to achieve this. We use positive action for management positions to attract applications from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

Senior managers are supported to participate in our reverse mentoring programme that aims to raise awareness of the experiences of our colleagues from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

We aim to ensure that the diverse needs of the people we support are understood and respected by capturing this within our support planning process which involves families and circles of support where appropriate.

Final words from our senior diversity champion Rachel Dodgson CEO –

“I’m proud to lead an organisation where EDI in all its forms is at the heart of what we do and how we operate.  A diverse organisation makes for a better organisation for both the people we support and our workforce.  As the EDI champion for the Dimensions Group, I am wholly committed to ensuring we not only celebrate the progress we have made, but continue to strive to do more.”