Inclusive Recruitment Audit

Why does inclusive recruitment matter?

Inclusive recruitment is essential to ensuring fair access to opportunity across housing organisations. Boards and staff teams that reflect the communities they serve build greater trust, resilience, and insight.

We know that recruitment support services are important not only for ethical reasons but also for the business benefits they bring. A diverse and inclusive workforce and board can lead to increased creativity, improved problem-solving, better decision-making, and enhanced innovation. It can also help organisations better understand and serve an increasingly diverse customer base.

However, many organisations face ongoing challenges including

Underrepresentation of diverse voices and lived experience (particularly at senior and leadership levels).
Inconsistent or outdated recruitment practices.
Limited measuring and accountability for diversity outcomes.

What are the Inclusive Recruitment Audit tools?

Our Inclusive Recruitment Audit tools are structured, evidence-led reviews of your organisation’s recruitment practices through the lens of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). The tools have been designed for housing and related sector organisations committed to attracting, selecting, and retaining talent that reflects the communities they serve. These are not a compliance checks — they are development tools grounded in reflection, dialogue, and recommendations for practical action.

We are currently piloting two tools – one which looks at approaches to general workforce recruitment, and one which focuses specifically on recruitment for board or other NED roles.

What do the tools look at?

The audit tools examine inclusive recruitment across 7 distinct areas or “domains” to identify challenges and recommendations (as well as good practice which can be enhanced). These are:

Recruitment Policy/Strategy/Governance
Candidate Sourcing & Attraction
Selection & Appointment Processes
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
Onboarding, Integration & Retention
Leadership/Accountability/Culture
Current Board / Workforce Composition & Analysis (including lived experience and succession planning for boards)

What do we get by the end of the process?

A comprehensive initial diagnostic report.
Facilitated workshop with domain-by-domain exploration.
A tailored action plan for improvement.
18-month access to the online tool for tracking progress and measuring change.

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