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The Engaging Diversity Project demonstrates public and private sector working at its best. A unique development partnership for the project was set-up between project leaders, the BTC Group, local councils, an NHS Trust, NGOs and charities in Wales.

Some partners including The Welsh Language Board and Stonewall Wales provided valuable advice for the development of the learning modules. Other partners took an active role in the development of the learning programme and implemented the modules within their organisation.

A partnership was also formed with Bangor University who independently evaluated the impact of the learning on individuals and organisations using the programme.

Finally, a transnational partnership (TNP) was set-up to share best practice with other Equal projects in Poland, Slovakia and Portugal. The TNP provided the project with a helpful testing ground to try out effective approaches for using eCommunities.

See our partners list page for a full list of all the partners involved with the project.

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BTC will keep confidential all personal data supplied by any user of the Site and will use such data solely for the administration of the Site. BTC will not sell or divulge customer information to any third party for any purpose, except as required by law. BTC may use statistical information concerning users for marketing and similar purposes (e.g. ‘60% of our users are under/over 30’) but this will be done in such a way that no individual can be identified.

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Last amended: 15 May 2007.

Welcome to thelearningbusiness Web site. This section explains our policy regarding any personal information you might supply to us when you visit this site. thelearningbusiness is a part of BTC Group Ltd. We are a training and learning consultancy and maintaining the confidentiality of our clients and their business is a core value of our company. Our goal is to protect your information in the same way as we protect all our client confidential information.

The maintaining of the privacy of our users is very important to BTC. BTC is registered with the UK Data Protection Commission in accordance with UK legislation.

BTC will keep confidential all personal data supplied by any user of the Site and will use such data solely for the administration of the Site. BTC will not sell or divulge customer information to any third party for any purpose, except as required by law. BTC may use statistical information concerning users for marketing and similar purposes (e.g. ‘60% of our users are under/over 30’) but this will be done in such a way that no individual can be identified.

BTC may mail electronically existing or former registered users of the Site with details of other services of BTC which may be interest to them. When we do this, you will be able to opt out of all future mailings.

All messages and material you post on the Site or transmit via the Site may be seen by other users of the Site. BTC takes all reasonable steps to ensure that access to information posted on or transmitted to a particular community is restricted to registered users of that community; however the security of data transmitted over the internet and the world wide web cannot be completely guaranteed and you use the Site at your own risk.

We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to assist in administering the Site.

BTC cannot be held responsible for the security or privacy policy of other websites you may access through the Site.

You agree that all messages and material you post on the Site will become the property of BTC., except any material which is the intellectual property of a third party published with their permission and where clear notice of such property is given. You agree that BTC may use, copy, edit or amend such messages and material in any way and may transmit, sell, licence or distribute such material worldwide; BTC may do so where it believes this will assist in the learning and development of others and will edit or amend material in such a way that personal information and information relating to or identifying any company, business or public body is removed, except with the prior consent of the individuals, companies, businesses and public bodies concerned.

The Engaging Diversity project investigated how new technology could enable large organisations in Wales to build understanding of diversity and create working environments that respect individual's differences. The project is part ESF EQUAL funded and runs from 2004 - 2007 and takes place in 3 main phases:-

Action 1

During the first phase, a unique development partnership for the project was forged between project leaders, BTC Group, local councils, an NHS trust, NGOs charities and advisory bodies in Wales.

Action 2

During the second phase eLearning and training specialists, the BTC Group worked in close collaboration with the partners to develop a compelling diversity eLearning programme with modules covering the subjects of Race, Disability, Gender, Age, Welsh Language, Sexual Orientation and Religion & Belief. The modules were trialled by over 4,000 workers from partner organisations and University of Wales, Bangor independently evaluated the impact of the learning.

Action 3

The final phase of the project focuses on sharing the conclusions and best practice findings of the project with the wider community of policy makers, training & HR professionals and diversity practitioners in Wales and beyond. Our two dedicated conferences will be the main dissemination stream for the project and are open to everyone.