BAME APPRENTICESHIP AWARDS
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Celebrating the talent and diversity among British BAME Apprentices
Launched in 2016, the BAME Apprenticeship Awards (formerly known as the Asian
Apprenticeship Awards) has now engaged with over 1000 apprentices from BAME
backgrounds across the UK. BAME stands for stands for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic.
In the last four years, the awards have created
over 200 role models, who have been able to
use their success as a platform to celebrate their
achievements in their apprenticeship.
The awards have also been instrumental in
creating future leaders and ambassadors for
apprenticeships highlighting key issues around
the need for more diversity in the UK workforce.
Winning employers have showcased their
diversity and inclusion strategies and how it’s
helped them to shape an inclusive and diverse
work environment as best practice examples for
other organisations to follow.
Diversity and inclusion in the world of
apprenticeships is all about people from all
backgrounds having the same opportunities and
support. It is about creating environments that
support people from different backgrounds by
dealing with specific needs, for instance: support
with religious restrictions from clothing to social
activity, or educational support for individuals
whose socioeconomic background may have
had an adverse effect on their learning.
When researching diversity in apprenticeships,
we found that there has been a lack of BAME
leaders in apprenticeships. People from BAME
backgrounds were not looking at apprenticeships
positively because they couldn’t relate to them due
to a lack of role models.
Have a look at some of winners from BAME
Apprenticeship Awards 2019!
To get inspired, have a look at
bameapprenticeshipawards.co.uk/
www.careermap.co.uk
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