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EDI STRATEGY 2024-26

OUR COMMITTMENT OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND

ASSOCIATED PRIORITIES

Our EDI strategy focuses on core of all activities.
to challenge and to actively include EDI
four key objectives: Our EDI strategy is for our entire perspectives in their routine activities.
community. It aims to be proactive, A fully comprehensive
 Integrating and embedding EDI IV. Widen our commitment to EDI to
accessible, and implementable across approach will require that,
into all aspects of RVC life. include our relationships with external
our organisation – in our teaching, our through policy and practice, we partners, contractors, and suppliers.
 Attracting, retaining and research and clinical missions, our entrench EDI as a constant in V. Raise the profi le of EDI work by
supporting diversity. student and staff experiences and in our all our activities.
incorporating it into the institutional Integrate and embed EDI
interactions with clients, stakeholders and
 Actively working to dismantle We will ecognition and reward processes.
partners - locally and globally.
structural barriers. VI. Ensure we use reliable data as our into all aspects of RVC
evidence base to inform
 Creating a culture of inclusivity that
I. Develop approaches to our processes anddrive our EDI work, impact life, for our students, staff,
engenders belonging.
and systems that allow for the consideration
assessments and annual reporting.
The RVC is dedicated to being an of EDI in all decision-making. partners, clients, and all
organisation in which equity, diversity II. Ensure that all members of the RVC
and inclusion underpin all that we do. governance and senior leadership are stakeholders.
In pursuing our mission to educate, fully equipped to lead on EDI by including
undertake research and provide clinical specifi c training on how to recognise and
care, we remain committed to creating address issues of equity, diversity, and
an inclusive, diverse, and welcoming inclusion.
community, where our students and staff III. Provide regular EDI training and
work together to ensure professionalism, education to the RVC community such
mutual respect and collegiality are at the that they have the confi dence to support,

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