Some of our clients
Cabinet Office
In 2001, the Cabinet Office contracted Focus to prepare strategy recommendations to help them to achieve increased levels of EM representation in public appointments. The objectives of this project were to identify and fully understand the aims and intentions of the Cabinet Office in relation to social inclusion in public appointments; to identify the barriers that predispose against inclusion within public appointments; and to undertake a gap analysis that would determine the optimum method to achieve the desired improvements.
Central Council for Education & Training in Social Work (CCETSW)
In 2001, Focus was assigned the task of investigating employee conflict and disputes and advising management on options for their resolution. This was one of a range of similar assignments undertaken for clients from the public, private and voluntary sectors.
Centre Europén Juif d'Information (CEJI)
Focus provided expert consultancy to a partnership between CEJI and the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities. The aim of the programme was to design anti-discriminatory interaction for the public sector in six European cities. Through EU funding, Focus developed an external training needs analytical tool and advised on training needs analysis as well as programme content.
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
Focus has held three training contracts with the CPS. One course involved the delivery of victim support training; the second the delivery of anti-harassment training; and the third assisted the Black Crown Prosecution Association in setting up their ethnic minority staff support network. A variety of methodologies combining high-level training and facilitation expertise was employed. Focus was also involved in the training of lawyers in the Direct Communication with Witnesses programme, in line with the recommendations of the Glidewell Report and the Lawrence Enquiry.
Department for Education & Skills (DfES)
In 2003 Focus was contracted to design and deliver a childcare recruitment campaign, aimed at raising the status of childcare careers amongst ethnic minority communities. The project was successful in generating a significant increase in the numbers of people from ethnic minority groups interested in a career in childcare. Focus was subsequently involved in developing local partnership capacity on the successful set-up and maintenance of an operational campaign aimed at these communities.
Department for International Development (DFID)
In August 2001, Focus was awarded this prestigious training contract to introduce diversity into DFID's existing Management Development Training Programme. The contract involved the training of all DFID staff at all levels (1,800 staff in the UK and overseas), and was a classic example of the ‘golden thread’ of diversity merging with other training programmes to achieve organisational change.
Department of Health (DoH)
Focus was commissioned in 2000 by the Department of Health/Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority to produce a draft manual which was to provide a strategic framework to improve health services for minority ethnic communities. The document was linked closely to the NHS Plan and the planning and implementation strategies contained therein, and sought to ensure that the improvements to health services embodied in these policies were delivered to all communities in the UK's ethnically diverse society.
Disney Corporation
In 2002 Focus delivered training to all Disney's UK HR practitioners as well as sector-specific managers who oversee operations for Disney UK, enabling them to enhance their competence in dealing with diversity and equality issues. A business-focused intervention was designed that covered key areas, including the business competencies for diversity and its link to bottom-line productivity. The role of diversity in developing a creative and dynamic working environment with its associated benefits in relation to products, markets and services was a key element of this work and four toolkits were developed as a support.
Dupont Pharmaceuticals
In collaboration with GRDR (Paris), Focus organised a series of European workshops on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention within African communities.
