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The Fostering Network is working to be an equal opportunities employer and service provider.

The aim of our policy is to ensure that no employee, user or applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of disability, race , gender or spent criminal conviction (with the exceptions specified in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974).

It also aims to ensure that no employee, user or applicant receives more or less favourable treatment on the following grounds: age, AIDS and HIV status, class, ex-care status, being lesbian or gay, gender, geographical location, marital status, nationality or ethnic or national origin, religion, responsibility for dependents, employment status and any other grounds which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Work with children, young people and their families needs to recognise the wider context in which people live and acknowledge that the experience of discrimination is a fact of everyday life for many. A high quality service can only be possible if all involved reject discrimination and work in a conscious way to do this.

In every course, the trainers will endeavour to implement this policy by identifying and relating the issues to course content, methods and group process.

Our trainers will encourage participants to recognise and challenge discrimination during the training and to relate this to their respective work settings in order to develop effective antidiscriminatory policy and practice in their agencies.