Your feedback is needed to help develop inclusive practice within Archive Service Accreditation
Your feedback is needed to help develop inclusive practice within Archive Service Accreditation
ARA is a member of the Archive Service Accreditation Committee. In 2019 we raised the issue of a need to embed explicit support for inclusive practice within the Archive Service Accreditation standard with the aim of encouraging archive services to embed equality, diversity and inclusion across the breadth of their work: their organisational context, their collections and their stakeholder engagement
The Committee agreed that this was an area for further work and that updates would be needed across the three modules of the standard, to ensure that archive services embed equality, diversity and inclusion in multiple areas. This includes supporting archive services in their work to remove barriers to participation, reach new audiences and think innovatively to engage more, and different, people with their work and in their collecting practice.
As a result the Roadmap to developing Archive Service Accreditation: inclusive practice within the national standard for archives 2021-2024 was developed and launched in August 2021.
The Committee are now looking for more archive services to provide feedback on the proposed changes to questions regarding equality, diversity and inclusive practice in Archive Service Accreditation by 31st January 2022.
The feedback form can be accessed here
A copy of the proposed questions, amended and additional guidance and feedback questions can be found here