International Women’s Day 2026 (IWD 2026), under the theme Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls, as explained by UN Women, “marks a moment to amplify our collective determination. No matter how deeply rooted the sexism or how discouraging the politics, we refuse to step back or abandon our mandate. Instead, we climb together – for the rights and empowerment of all women and girls."
provides an opportunity for organisations to reflect on progress made and actions taken to create fairer and more equitable environment for everyone.
Blogs
We'll be hearing exploring powerful stories and lived experiences shared by women working in social care.
Understanding equality and equity
Equality means treating everyone the same, giving them the same resources and opportunities.
Equity means recognising that people have different needs and providing support tailored to help everyone achieve the same outcome. It's important to note, that while we aim for equity in the workplace, the law protecting against discrimination is focused on equality and is called the 'Equality Act 2010'.
Resources to support equality, diversity and inclusivity in the workplace
There are lots of different characteristics that set individuals apart from each other, such as someone’s ethnicity or religion, their gender and sexuality, age or if they have a disability. All these characteristics could lead to varying levels of discrimination and privilege.
We have a range of resources to support employers to build inclusive and equitable workplace cultures and develop more diverse and compassionate leaders.
Explore the resources:
The Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Improvement Programme supports organisations to address evidence of inequality through the collection and analysis of their workforce against nine key metrics, enabling the development of action plans to drive tangible change and improvement.
Find out more about the SC-WRES
Confident with difference
This resource is made up of four short films, each around three to four minutes long. Each film is accompanied by an activity to generate discussions to consider how well diversity is embraced within your organisation and how you could improve.
This is a great resource to use with your teams in a team meeting.
Access Confident with difference
A positive culture toolkit for adult social care
This toolkit is for anyone responsible for the culture, management and leadership in adult social care workplaces of all sizes. It will support managers at different stages of their workplace culture journey to establish, maintain and improve workplace culture so that it’s inclusive, compassionate and collaborative.
You’ll find checklists, other resources and best practice examples to enable you to analyse your workplace culture and identify actions.
Access the positive culture toolkit