Equitable

What it looks like

• Asks what each person needs in order to take part, such as extra time, wheelchair access or materials in another language, before handing everyone the same thing.
• Explains openly why one person got more support than another, so the difference can be questioned.
• Checks who a rule leaves out, and changes it when the cost keeps falling on the same people.

Fits when treatment is adjusted fairly for relevant differences in circumstance

Not when you mean identical distribution without considering different needs

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

• Redesigned [allocation, scheduling or access process] to account for [different needs or circumstances], so that [group] could [take part or apply], with [result] over [period].

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• [Name] is equitable in how they [assign work, set schedules or award places]: they looked at what each person needed, explained the differences openly, and [result].

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• [Name] makes sure everyone in their group can join in, for example by reading the instructions aloud for a classmate who finds reading hard.

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• The new schedule put every late shift on the two staff without cars. He redrew it so the late shifts rotated, and paid for taxis on the nights the buses stopped running.

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