Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at GOSH

Dear Louise Park, Chief Executive, Great Ormond Street Charity We share your commitment, vision, and ambition to do more to create an inclusive society and workplace. But we are…

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To: Louise Parkes, Chief Executive, Great Ormond Street Charity

Dear Louise Park, Chief Executive, Great Ormond Street Charity We share your commitment, vision, and ambition to do more to create an inclusive society and workplace. But we are concerned that your commitment is falling short. There is a group of workers, mainly Black, Brown migrants, at GOSH who are being treated as second class citizens. GOSH security guards, we are sure you will know, work alongside NHS staff every day to keep all safe and secure. You will also be aware that every day during the pandemic they went above and beyond their roles and responsibilities to make sure the hospital could still function for the patients, families, and NHS staff that work together to battle illness. Despite this, they are employed on inferior terms and conditions, creating a two-tier system. The security guards deserve better than this, they deserve to work in a hospital that is, to quote from your own mission statements: “about creating a fairer society, where everyone is treated with dignity, respect and without discrimination”. We believe that the inferior contracts that the security guards are employed on through a private contractor are not only immoral but also unlawful under the Equality Act 2010 as the discriminatory implications of this situation have not been assessed or mitigated against in breach of GOSH’s Public Sector Equality Duty. We urge you to use your influence to implement the commitments laid out in your “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy and bring the GOSH security guards in-house on NHS Agenda for Change Contracts. The security guards are striking on December 6-9 and we support them although we also think it should not have to come to this. Yours sincerely,

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