1. Welcome Diversity Works for London Showcasing Event24 March 2010

2. Arun Batra Director of Equality and Diversity London Development Agency Welcome and Housekeeping 3.

16:30 Registration & Light Refreshments

17:00 Welcome

Arun Batra Director of Equality & Diversity, LDA

17:05 Opening Address

Richard Barnes Deputy Mayor of London, GLA

17:15 DWfL Update Introducing the newProcurement Standard

Natasha Landers Head of DWfL, LDA

17:45 Ask the Audience Interactive Session

Shahid Bashir & Aaron Reid DWfL, LDA

18:00 Q&A Panel Discussion

Chaired by Arun Batra

18:50 Closing Remarks

Arun Batra

19:00 Networking with Canaps & Drinks

Agenda 4. Richard Barnes Deputy Mayor of London Greater London Authority Opening Address 5. Natasha Landers Head of Diversity Works for London London Development Agency DWfL Supporting Businesses to Benefit from Diversity 6.

What is Diversity Works for London?

Enhancing the customer journey

Whats new?

Content of Presentation 7.

DWfL is a Mayoral programme

Supporting businesses to benefit from diversity

A free programme specifically tailored to SME and LE private sector businesses

Steered by business leaders in BLAG

Who We Are 8.

Reviewed the programme to respond to:

Mayoral direction and business need

Streamline the customer journey

Incorporate learning from the pilot of the Gold Standard

Changes in legislation

Reviewing our offer to our customers 9.

Substantially revamped the website

Enhanced the business support offer

Streamlined the Gold Standard

Developed a Procurement Standard for E&D

Overview of changes made 10.

Key findings:

We needed to improve our customer journey

Our home page was too busy and didnt support our proposition

There was a one size fits all approach to potential businesses

Diversityworksforlondon.comRefresh 11. 12. 13. 14.

www.diversityworksforlondon.com

Website Address 15.

We offer a range of business support products

Questioned whether they were still the right range of business support

Now business support relates specifically to where you are on your diversity

journey

Business Support 16.

What has been changed?

Removed prescriptive targets

Simplified statements

Comprehensive guidance to each statement

Evidence examples for each, aligned with the scoring criteria

Detailed guidance notes on the customer journey

Gold Standard Review 17.

Responding to business and procurement needs and legislative requirements

We are key mechanism for Mayor on ELC4A and RP

Working with RP to develop a common standard for GLA Group

Set a standard that measure diversity proficiency

Procurement Standard for E&D 18.

Confirms and clarifies public sector equality requirements

Simple, flexible & effective

Business support

Procurement Standard: Business Proposition 19.

Procurement led solution

Simple, flexible & effective

Part of the Mayors Responsible Procurement Initiative

Procurement Standard: Buyers Proposition 20.

The Mayors Responsible Procurementpolicyand Equal Life Chances for allFrameworkencourages GLA group suppliers to adopt and embed the principles of the Diversity Works for LondonSelf Assessment Toolkit and thenew ProcurementStandard for Equality and Diversity.

Procurement Standard: GLA support 21.

The GLA group supports the principle of a common standardfor equality which provide a clear and consistent message to suppliers and will seek to investigate the options for implementation during 2010/11.

Procurement Standard: GLA support 22.

Continue to engage with businesses

Securing a common agreement with the 32 London Boroughs

Roll it out nationally

Look out for events programme coming soon

Moving Forward 23. Shahid Bashir Senior Equality Manager London Development Agency Ask the Audience Aaron Reid Equality Manager London Development Agency 24. Arun Batra Director of Equality and Diversity London Development Agency Q & A Panel Discussion

Ian Wolter CEO, HB Human Capital

Iqbal Wahhab OBE Founder, Roast Restaurants

Natasha Landers Head of DWfL, London Development Agency

Oona King Head of Diversity, Channel 4

Pam Farmer Global Services People & Policy Mgr, BT Group Diversity Centre of Expertise

25. Thank You DWfL Showcasing Event - 24 March 2010