Inclusion and diversity - Camden Careers
Inclusion and diversity
Our Commitment
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and an organisation that we have pride in.
A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
By doing this, we will ensure we continue to represent our communities to the best of our ability and deliver our ambitions for Camden. It matters to us that:
- Everyone is able to be their best self at work: being who they are, being listened to, valued and respected.
- People who work here reflect the diversity of Camden, and understand the place and our communities.
- We know that everyone of us have biases: but we work to understand, challenge, learn and evolve from them for the better.
- We value and celebrate difference and how that adds to our culture.
- We use our differences to help us make better decisions, rather than pretending we’re all the same.
- That we are all responsible for calling out anything that is not right, doesn’t support these values and needs to be stopped.
- That everyone comes to work with the determination to resolve and learn from the things that are not right.
- We don’t tolerate any form of discrimination, victimisation, harassment or bullying.
Camden is top 50 on Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers List
Camden places at 47th in Stonewall list of Top Employers for LGBTQ+ people
Stonewall’s Top 100 employers List ranks organisations on their efforts and commitment to creating welcoming environments for their lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer staff.
Organisations are ranked by a set of standardised criteria, which includes ensuring HR policies are inclusive of LGBTQ+ people, as well as supporting and celebrating LGBTQ+ identities at work
Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant (EDAC)
Camden has signed up to the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant (EDAC), becoming the first London Local Authority to take the pledge to support women affected by domestic abuse to enter or re-enter the workplace, view our certificate here.
Our Approach
We create the environment where nothing stops us being our best self at work.
We are committed to making sure work is a place where everyone feels valued, safe and respected by each other every day.
We come to work to improve the lives of residents and make Camden a better borough, a place that works for everyone and where everyone has a chance to succeed.
We do this by recognising we are all human beings in the workplace. Where the human relationships matter as well as the actual work, our systems and processes and the influence of our leadership.
To create this environment we make brave and radical decisions to ensure we rid ourselves of any obstacles to people being themselves and we don’t accept the unacceptable.
