c2e's Diversity Assured accreditation

What is the c2e Diversity Assured accreditation?

Committed 2 Equality (or c2e) is the accreditation body for the equality and diversity quality mark Diversity Assured. The c2e quality mark covers all strands of equality: age, disability, gender, religion, race and ethnic origin, gender re-assignment and sexual orientation in line with the Equality Act 2010. To achieve the accreditation you need to achieve 80% or more during the c2e assessment, delivered by Assessment North East. You can achieve Gold by achieving 90% or more.

How do I make sure I have everything in place before coming for audit?

We have developed a programme to help you implement/amend policies and procedures prior to coming forward for assessment. The programme is flexible and scalable and based on realistic good practice that can easily be adapted to any organisation. It includes:

A self assessment and action planning session with an advisor
Support from an advisor in the way that suits you (can be face to face or through phone and email)
Access to templates and policies (with guidance from the advisor to ensure they are relevant)
Monitoring mechanisms to check progress
The assessment - Interviews with employees + desktop review of systems with feedback

How long does it take?

The c2e programme takes on average 15 hours of employer time over a 6 week period. The on-site assessment takes approximately 3 hours.

How do I begin?

Simply fill in this free diagnostic and then Contact us

What is the recognition period?

We will re-assess you annually to help you continuously improve systems and processes and ensure you continue to meet the standards.