Inclusive Employment
Overall goal
Support inclusive employment and ‘good work’, becoming representative of London’s communities at all levels of our organisations
Key deliverables
- Help more Londoners from underrepresented backgrounds into ‘good work’ paying at least the London Living Wage 
- Become representative of London’s communities at all levels of our organisations by creating inclusive workplaces that support the retention and progression of staff from all backgrounds 
- Make progress in closing our gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps 
Work programme highlights
- Adopting more inclusive recruitment processes including more proactive outreach to underrepresented communities 
- Offering more supported internships 
- Creating more inclusive workplaces with a particular focus on retention and progression of disabled staff 
- Achieving London Living Wage accreditation (where not already in place) 
- Achieving the Mayor’s Good Work Standard accreditation (where not already in place) 
- Driving up apprenticeship creation, including through transfer of unspent apprenticeship levy 
Progress measures
- No. of apprenticeships paid at least the London Living Wage in the last financial year 
- No. of supported internships in the last financial year 
- No. of people from target populations recruited in the last financial year 
- Amount in £x of Apprenticeship Levy pledged in the last financial year 
- Gender pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time 
- Ethnicity pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time 
- Disability pay gap narrowed over the past financial year OR published for the first time 
- Achievement of Disability Confident or the next level of the scheme 
- Achievement of London Living Wage accreditation (and no. of staff whose pay is uplifted as a result) 
- Achievement of Good Work Standard accreditation 
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      Co-Chairs: Karima Khandker, Head of Skills, Emerging Talent and EDI, Thames Water - karima.khandker@thameswater.co.uk Janet Gardner, Principal and CEO, Waltham Forest College - jgardner@waltham.ac.uk Members: Alison May, Assistant Director, Skills and Employment, London Borough of Lambeth - AMay@lambeth.gov.uk Andre Burwood, BASE Programme Director, Battersea Power Station Development Company, ABurwood@bpsdc.co.uk Babak Jani, Head of Skills, Film London - babak.jani@filmlondon.org.uk Claire Churchill, Associate Workforce Transformation Lead, Widening Access and Participation, NHS England - London Region, claire.churchill1@nhs.net Claire Rae, Deputy Director, HR, University of Londonclaire.rae@london.ac.uk Darren de Souza, Senior Policy and Projects Officer, London Higher - darren.desouza@londonhigher.ac.uk David Steeds, Group Partnership Manager for London and Essex, Department for Work and Pensions - david.steeds@dwp.gov.uk Donna Tuson, Human Resources Business Partner, London City Airport - Donna.Tuson@londoncityairport.com James Lloyd, Skills and Employment Strategy Manager, Transport for London - JamesLloyd@tfl.gov.uk Mark Hilton, Executive Director, People, BusinessLDN - Mark.Hilton@businessldn.co.uk Mark Stangroom, Resourcing and EVP Specialist, Greater London Authority - Mark.Stangroom@london.gov.uk Mary Vine-Morris, Area Director (London), Association of Colleges - mary.vine-morris@aoc.co.uk Michael Collins, Head of Integration - Employability, Ingeus, mcollins@ingeus.co Sarah Martin, Head of HR Operations, London Fire Brigade, sarah.martin@london-fire.gov.uk Sophie Cloutterbuck, Chair of London Higher Civic Network, London Metropolitan University - s.cloutterbuck@londonmet.ac.uk Tom Harlow, Head of Talent, Arsenal Football Club, tharlow@arsenal.co.uk Please contact Shehreen Najam, Senior Policy Officer, GLA, Shehreen.Najam@london.gov.uk for more information about this working group. 
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      Recent meeting notes from the hiring and skills working group are below: 15 January 2024: notes can be downloaded here Conference breakout, 08 February 2024: notes can be downloaded here 23 April, 2024: notes can be downloaded here 22 Jan, 2025: notes can be downloaded here 2 July, 2025: notes can be downloaded here 2 July, 2025: Inclusive Employment Master Slidedeck including the Inclusive Talent Strategy and TfL Inclusive Workplaces can be downloaded here For archived notes please contact the LAIN Core Team - Anchors@london.gov.uk 
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      Good work General Case study: Supporting prison leavers into good jobs Disability and health in the workplace Slide deck: Becoming Disability Smart by the Business Disability Forum Slide deck: Becoming Disability Smart by the Business Disability Forum ( 8 February 2024, Conference Session) Slide Deck: Disability Resource - Project Search introduction to Supported Internships Paper: LAIN Hiring and Skills working group paper - disability in the workforce.pdf Guide: Employer guide to providing meaningful employment for autistic people Slide deck: Mental health in the workplace Race and ethnicity in the workplace Slide deck: Recruitment and Retention with an Ethnicity Focus by The Equal Group Worksheet: Inclusive Recruitment by The Equal Group Worksheet: Race Conversations by The Equal Group Supporting retention and progression Slide deck: Leadership programmes at Imperial College London for disabled and BAME staff Slide deck: Leadership programmes at University of Westminster Slide deck: Supporting progression of underrepresented colleagues at the GLA About LAIN and the Hiring and Skills Working Group Welcome Pack: LAIN Welcome Pack.pdf Slide Deck: Introducing LAIN - Stakeholder presentation for members.pptx 
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      12-2pm, Wednesday 22 January 2025 12-2pm, Wednesday 30 April 2025 12-2pm, Wednesday 2 July, 2025 12-2pm, Tuesday 21 October, 2025 

