STEM Equality and Diversity Toolkit – Useful Websites
Governmental links
Department for Business Innovation & Skills
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Skills Funding Agency – Equality and Diversity
Creating and fairer and more equal society
A cross-government effort to work towards a fairer society by promoting equality and reducing discrimination and disadvantage
Equality Act 2010
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Health & Safety Executive
Gov.UK - Discrimination: your rights
UK Commission for Employment and Skills
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
Unions and workplace relations
ACAS
TUC
Teachers/Education
AoC
ASCL
NAHT
NASUWT
NUT
Campaign and advisory services
British Institute of Human Rights
CaSE – Campaign for Science and Engineering
Citizens Advice
Equality Advisory and Support Service
Law Centres Network
Voice Ability
Careers guidance
Career Development Institute
The Careers and Enterprise Company
Careers Northern Ireland
Careers Wales
National Careers Service
Prospects
Skills Development Scotland
Sector Skills Councils
Directory of Sector Skills Councils
Cogent – Skills for Science-based Industries
Institute of the Motor Industry
Creative Skillset
CITB
Improve – Food and drink manufacturing sector
Skills for Health
Creative and Cultural Skills
LANTRA
Skills for Justice
Tech Partnership
Skills Active
Energy & Utility Skills
SEMTA
Engineering Construction Industry Training Board
proskills UK
Summit SKILLS
Business-related
Business in the Community – Business Class
Edge Foundation
Education and Employers Taskforce -
Inspiring the Future, Primary Futures, Inspiring Women Campaign
Inspiring the Future
NHS Careers
Your Life – (2014-17)
Gender
Code First – Girls and Young Women in Tech
WEST (Women in Engineering Science and Technology)
Women and Manual Trades
Women’s Business Council
Women on Boards
WISE (Women into Science and Engineering)
WES- Women’s Engineering Society
Women in Logistics
YWCA
Women in Technology
Disability
Disability Rights UK
Royal Association for Deaf People
SKILL
Shaw Trust
Professor Stephen Hawking
Information on eligibility and claims arrangements for the Disabled Students’ Allowances
DWP guidance on help and support for young people to find and stay in work
Race and ethnicity
Windsor Fellowship – enriching education, employment and citizenship
Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
LGBT
Stonewall
Terence Higgins Trust
Press for Change for Trans people
a: gender
The Gender Trust
Gender Identity Research and Education Society
Gendered Intelligence
Mermaids
Social mobility
Brightside Trust
Generating Genius - charity committed to creating next generation of STEM talent
The Sutton Trust
Religion and belief
The Inter Faith Network for the UK
Family-related issues
Campaign for Learning
Family Learning
National Children's' Bureau
Sites specific to STEM careers
Engineering UK
National STEM Centre
Stemnet
Future Morph – career opportunities from science and maths
Scenta
Institution of Civil Engineers
Centre for Science Education – STEM unit
Royal Society of Biology - Information and educational resources linked to biology careers
Institute of Physics
Royal Academy of Engineering
Royal Society of Chemistry
Maths Careers
More Maths Grads
Tech Partnership
The Royal Institute for British Architects
The Design and Technology Association
I’m a scientist - Get me out of here
Wohl Reach Out Lab, Imperial College
British Science Association – British Science Festival
The Big Bang - UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair
BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT
Engineering Development Trust
Young Engineers
Gives information on the different levels of CREST awards and how they can be achieved.
Code club – coding for children age 9-11
Websites with role models
STEMNET
Click on STEM ambassadors(people who are willing to come and talk to pupils) in your area
Windsor Fellowship
Internship and mentoring programmes
Women’s Engineering Society – Role models
WISE Campaign
Architects for Change
British Chambers of Commerce
Contact your local Chamber who may be able to put you in touch with appropriate role models
Icould
CareersBox
Inspiring the Future and Inspiring Women
Primary Futures
Women in Logistics UK
Websites with work experience guidance
Royal Society of Chemistry page on chemistry-related work experience
Information from the Health and Safety Executive on work experience for young people
Work experience in the NHS
Work experience – Changes to government policy
Education and Employers Taskforce
Search on ‘work experience’
LifeSkills, created with Barclays
STEM Equality and Diversity Toolkit – Useful websites. Updated September 2015