Skills for Care named TIDE 2025 Silver Winner for equality and diversity work
24 Oct 2025
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- Culture and diversity
- Skills for Care
- Good news story
October is Black History Month and we’re spotlighting support available for Black people working in social care. We’re delighted to announce that we’ve received a TIDE 2025 Silver Award for outstanding commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Skills for Care is proud to have been named a Silver winner in the TIDE 2025 awards.
The TIDE awards are run by Onvero, a not-for-profit organisation that helps employers build and maintain diverse teams and inclusive cultures through membership, training, and consultancy services.
TIDE (Talent Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation) is a free self-assessment and benchmarking tool that helps organisations measure, improve, and sustain diversity, equality, and inclusion practices.
Skills for Care has a membership with Onvero, and as a part of this, we take part in an annual Talent Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation, and receive a benchmark.
The TIDE awards recognise organisations with an outstanding commitment to inclusion and diversity.
With over 180 entrants, Skills for Care is delighted to have been named as one of the Silver Winners for 2025.
The awards showcase organisations whose leadership and dedication are helping to set new standards across diversity, equality, and inclusion practices.
Skills for Care’s work around equality, diversity and inclusion includes the Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES). As well as supporting this work for the social care sector, we recently completed the SC-WRES for our own organisation and published our action plan.
We also work closely with our Race Equity Reference Group (RERG) which has been established to support Skills for Care’s commitment on championing equity, equality, and diversity. The group is made up of representatives from across the sector and includes people who work in and across social care and people with lived experience. The RERG will support Skills for Care to develop a positive and practical narrative on race equality.
Tristram Gardner, Deputy CEO, Skills for Care, says:
We are delighted to share that we have achieved a Silver TIDE award! Silver is a fantastic achievement and no mean feat considering the rigorous evaluation process. It is testament to the sustained hard work by colleagues across Skills for Care.
Find more of Skills for Care’s work around equality, diversity and inclusion and our resources to support the social care sector on our Black History Month webpage.
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