The DWfL Gold Standard

The DWfL Gold Standard

When you achieve the Gold Standard you will be an organisation that demonstrates good diversity practice across all six strands of diversity – age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion and belief and sexual orientation.

The Gold Standard will help you:

• Recruit and retain top talent
• Gain  a competitive edge when bidding for contracts
• Improve your bottom line
• Minimise your risk of costly litigation
• Lead the field in diversity good practice.  

The Gold Standard is comprehensive, stretching but achievable and flexible enough to recognise that organisations have different needs and require equality and diversity objectives that are appropriate for them and relevant to their industry and sector.

Once you have self-assessed your organisation as Gold in all six sections, you can request that DWfL validates  your results. On successful completion of the validation, you can publicly promote your organisation as having reached the DWfL Gold Standard for Diversity. You can find out more by downloading the Gold Standard Diversity Toolkit for large enterprises guidance notes and Gold Standard Diversity Toolkit Validation on this page. Find out which companies have pledged to 'Go for Gold'.

Find out what large businesses are saying about the Gold Standard Diversity Tool.

Access the Gold Standard Diversity Toolkit here.