Becoming an anti-racist organisation

At South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust we acknowledge the impact of racism on our staff, service users and our communities. It is our ambition to become an anti-racist organisation that will proactively challenge behaviours and known prejudice, work with our communities to understand impacts, and change policies that perpetuate racist ideas and actions.

As a part of this, and to celebrate race equality week, we have launched our Trust anti-racist statement. The statement has been prepared following engagement with our staff and insight gathered from our conversations with local communities. It has been co-produced and sets out our commitment that:
• We are an anti-racist organisation and will not tolerate any form of racism.
• We have a role in challenging racism and delivering anti-racist practice.
• We acknowledge that racism and inequality exists and there is more we need to do.
• We will listen to the voice of those with lived experience to help our understanding and actions.
• We are proud of our diverse workforce and want to actively recruit a workforce reflective of our communities
• We will actively gather and share insight to drive out actions in reducing race disparity.

You can read the full statement here.

If you would like to find out more, or would like to register an interest in getting involved as one of our community connectors, please contact the Trust’s equality and involvement team on InvolvingPeople@swyt.nhs.uk.