From the about me page
My name is Alun Davies. I am a self-employed advisor and consultant on Equalities, Diversity and inclusion. I focus on Disability Equality, and also have significant experience of all diversity and equality issues.
My CV sets out my experience, knowledge and skills. You will read that I have many years of working across the community and voluntary and public and in local and central government at senior levels. I believe I bring an almost unique breadth of roles having been a local authority councillor, local authority senior officer, nhs non-executive and community and voluntary sector activist. I feel this gives me a rare insight to be able to understand a project or situation from all perspectives, and to be able to communicate with all stakeholders understanding their point of view. My aim is to always seek an agreed way forward owned by all achieved by sensitive negotiation through collaboration and partnership.
I have served on a number of governance bodies. This has given me a strong desire to assist organisations to develop the most ethical effective, robust and transparent decision-making governance structures. I have extensive chairing experiences and would be willing to either chair a organisation or committee for a time, or to undertake a full governance review of an organisation to take it forward.
I live in Bristol. I can travel and am willing to work anywhere in the UK. I have a DBS check, all relevant insurances and am IR35 compliant.
The pieces of work I can offer assistance with include:
Empowering Disabled People
Developing and / or undertaking development of a co-production policy and process
Practical solutions to Disability Inequality
A full organisational review to ensure legal comp-liance and best practise regarding Equality and Diversity
Disability Equality Trainer & VI Training
Training including visual impairment awareness, effective chairing, equalities and diversity, effective governance
Collaborative equality
Strategic Expertise
Strategy and policy writing including a full development process including co-production and consultation
Effective Policy Maker
Policy and processes for enabling people with lived experience / expertise to represent themselves and be fully integrated in to governance and decision-making processes
Chairing Meetings
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Empowering Disabled People
Groups and lived experience
Since he acquired his impairment in 1978, Alun has had an overwhelming belief in Disabled people and any other group who experience disadvantage being able to speak for and represent themselves and for their voices to be part of decision-making at every level. He has put this belief in to practise in his personal and professional life. This has included setting up a number of groups and forums where people with lived expertise have been in control, setting up formal processes for people with lived expertise to engage with public bodies, and representing the voices of people with lived expertise on local and central government and health bodies.
Practical solutions to Disability Inequality
I help companies and organisations implement strategies and policies that make equality a reality for disabled people. Disability equality is how we address the inequity…..
Disability Equality Trainer & VI Training
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Alun has been a trainer since 1986. The bulk of this training has been Disability Equality Training. He has trained a very wide range of organisations and individuals from the community, private and public sectors. Recently he has delivered visual impairment awareness training. His years of training have taught him to recognise whatever the seriousness of the subject it needs to be taught in a friendly open, non-confrontational way. The best way to get people to change their behaviour is to make them laugh not shout at them.
Collaborative equality
Because of my experience I have the ability to set up supportive partnerships that can genuinely bring about positive change. Working together to bring about change. As a local government officer, councillor and community activist, Alun has set up and supported groups and structures with partnership working and collaboration at their heart. These have included Health and Wellbeing boards, a group to advise a bus company on improving their services for people with a visual impairment, and Equality and diversity forums. At the heart of Alun’s approach is an understanding that partnership working only works effectively if everyone buys in to what is needed and to do sees that there is something for them to gain for the process. Above all, people need to recognise they are all there for the same reason: to bring about positive change.
Strategic Expertise
Add something here about your ability to write a strategy on anything, not limited to your main expertise. Alun has many years of experience of not just writing strategies and policies, but leading and undertaking the whole development process from inception, engagement, writing and approval. He has done this in both the public and community and voluntary sectors. A fundamental driver is for everything to be concise, clear and accessible.
Effective Policy Maker
Make it clear you can write policies on anything. Alun has extensive experience of being an active participant in governance structures. This has included at a national level on the Healthwatch England committee and a member of the management committee of the British council of Disabled people. At a local level he has been a trustee / management committee member of several community and voluntary sector organisations working with older people, Disabled children and young people and housing issues. In all of these roles he has played an active part in ensuring the organisation has robust and effective policies and measure to be accountable, financially viable, operationally effective and transparent.
Chairing Meetings
Chairing any meeting, not specific. Chairing meeting Alun believes from extensive experience is a real skill that takes many years to develop. In our Bureaucratic meetings-based decision-making governmental structures being able to chair a meeting that makes decisions in a reasonable timescale with everyone feeling they have had their chance to contribute is vital. Alun has chaired meetings at a national and local level and has learnt from very good chairs what works and what does not. He is able and willing to come in and chair an organisation to help get it through a period of time