1. The Need for Values-Led Equality Bodies
Niall Crowley
Equality and Diversity Expert, Co-Founder Values Lab

2. Moment of Crisis Austerity has constrained the ambition for equality
Populism has undermined human rights
Civil society has come under pressure
Crisis of values
Crisis of imagination

3. Moment of Threat
Equality is increasingly placed under the umbrella of human rights
Equality reduced to minimum standard of equal treatment
Two different traditions
Minimum standard vs. Societal change
Undifferentiated individuals vs. Diversity of Groups
Pursuit of legal norms vs. Build public demand

4. Theory of Change Legal norms driving change
Institutional systems driving change
Societal values driving change
Values shaping individual choices
Values shaping organisational objectives and processes
Values that get prioritised
Values that get exercised

5. Values-Led Organisation
Organisations that are explicit, coherent and consistent about their values
Deploying values as a lens for planning, decision- making, and design of activities
Equality bodies as values-led organisations
Dignity, autonomy, inclusion, democracy, and social justice as values that motivate concern for equality and for human rights

6. Practice Implications
Values central to the theory for change pursued
Building capacity to engage values
Communicating values
Promoting values-led institutions
Advising on policy change
Implementing values internally