LSCA Business
Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants – Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 1 Institute related news The institute continues its diversity push with attention given to D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) matters. A news release in April 2021, announced Sharon Spice appointed new Access Accountancy chair. Additionally ICAEW hired two diversity and inclusion managers to boost equality in the profession. Dr Antonia Sudkaemper and Sara Najjuma will support teams across the organisation to develop strategies and initiatives to improve equality of opportunity for colleagues, members and students. The full report may be seen here. ICAEW aimed to collect membership diversity as part of the annual exercise for fees and CPD declarations. Data to
be collected includes: ethnic origin, socio-economic background and disability information. Reminders have been sent since the beginning of the year and it is not too late to participate. If anyone has not responded, a link to the survey may be found here. Also members of LSCA are encouraged to actively highlight the survey to colleagues, peer groups and other institute contacts. On 16 March 2021, ICAEW held a Kickstarting Social Mobility webinar. In March, Sara Najjuma one of the newly recruited ICAEW diversity and inclusion managers held virtual meetings with members of the NW region committee members as part of her ICAEW induction. We welcome Sara to her new role.
On 24th March, ICAEW held a Diversity & Inclusion Community webinar “talking about Race and Inclusive Language Comfortably”. Anyone wishing to listen to the webinar may do so here. 2 Local contacts Contact was made with Nina Sahu, the chair of Liverpool Law Society ED&I and a first meeting was held in February. There are many promising opportunities for collaboration and sharing of ideas. 3 National ED&I webinars and events attended by Barbara Boyle An unexpected benefit of the pandemic has meant greater access to national events held on line. A selection of such events in the past few months are shown below:
DATE
SPONSOR(S)
TITLE
SPEAKER
11.03.21
Broadgate Search, The FENG
Inclusivity matters: Diversity within accountancy & finance
Panel - Perrin Joel - Host and Chair at Broadgate Search - Nadine Dyer - Respect and Inclusion Manager at Deloitte - Bianca Granara - CFO at Salary Finance - Shawn McCarthy - Head of Treasury and Board Member at FENG. - Dauda Jammeh - Group Finance Operations Manager at Brit Insurance
25.03.21
D&I Leaders
The Role of Visual Content: Driving Greater Diversity in the Workplace
Asif Sadiq MBE, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Adidas Kate Philpot, Senior Director of Global Sales Enablement, Getty Images
12.04.21
Goodman Masson
Positive Action (in Recruitment)
Lauren Boyce (Goodman Masson)
05.05.21
FT conference.
Gender equality: Are women at further risk of being left behind due to COVID19?
Panel: Julia Gillard Alison Rose (Nat West CEO) Tom Shropshire (Linklaters moving to GC of Diageo)
If you need ED&I help or advice or wish to share ideas, please contact Barbara Boyle via her Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-boyle/ 22
