Our work with the uniformed services
Developed with fire and rescue services, police forces and armed forces
About our work
This programme of work aims to address and prevent race and sex-based discrimination, harassment, and victimisation within Great Britain's uniformed services.
This work falls under Pillar 3 of our strategic plan 2025 to 2028, and will include:
- guidance and training to help services use equality data in their workplaces
- exchange events to provide opportunities for services to share best practice and learnings
- engagement with services to improve understanding of and compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty, including development of case studies and equality assessments
- ongoing monitoring of services’ compliance with the sexual harassment preventative duty
Latest engagement
Fill in the survey on our data guidance
We are seeking feedback from fire and rescue services, police services and the armed forces about how you use our guidance on Collecting and analysing equality data.
Your responses will help us understand how our guidance supports equality and diversity practices across the uniformed services. They will also inform any advice or guidance we offer in the future on collecting equality data.
The survey will be open from 18 September 2025, 2:55pm. It will close on 18 October 2026, 11:59pm.
If you cannot use the online survey, or need a reasonable adjustment, read about how to contact us.
Related work with the uniformed services
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Our letter to Fire and Rescue Services
We offered FRS support to implement the sexual harassment preventative duty.
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Creating networks in the uniformed services
We host and contribute to exchange events, webinars and networks across the uniformed services. We hope to encourage discussion across services and create networks through which best practice, information resources and knowledge can be shared. We also conduct our own research and insight gathering, so we can provide advice on improving equality in a way that is valuable, targeted and suitable for the services' needs.
Read reflections from our March 2025 equality exchange event.