Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NCB
The NCB Board of Trustees will ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion are embedded in its decision-making – and that its own membership reflects an appropriate diversity of perspectives to ensure that this happens. It will use its leadership role to make sure DEI is embedded across NCB as a whole organisation. Our dedicated Trustee DEI champions will be an important source of expertise and input, but we are clear that this is a shared responsibility for the Board as a whole.
The systems and issues that NCB works to improve, such as children’s social care and support for children with special educational needs, disproportionately affect many children with protected characteristics. Ensuring that our staff group reflects this diversity is the best way to ensure that we are looking at these issues from a full array of perspectives and therefore have the best chance of achieving impact.
However, we know we can only fully unlock this potential if all our staff – and all the children, young people and families we work with – feel included in our work and able to contribute this full range of perspectives.
NCB also has excellent reach and relationships with the professional communities, civil servants and politicians who work to improve these issues, this means we have a golden opportunity to highlight issues of equity and intersectionality between different sets of challenges and encourage more thoughtful approaches to things like anti-racist practice.
Board of Trustees Statement of Intent
NCB’s Board wants DEI to be firmly embedded in our organisational culture and champion advancements in all areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This starts with us, the Trustees. A diverse Board supports our leadership, effectiveness and decision making to ensure NCB continues to deliver its mission to build a better childhood for every child. As such, we embrace the following principles that reflect NCB’s core values.
Our principles
- The children and young people who could benefit most from a more equitable and inclusive society will be at the heart of our approach
- We acknowledge that, like in society, there are systemic issues in the charity sector and commit to playing our part to change that.
- We recognise the pivotal role we have in creating change by modelling positive behaviour and taking action.
- We will learn about structural, social, and cultural biases and their impact on leadership decisions.
- We commit to setting standards for DEI that reflect NCB’s stakeholders and the areas in which we work.
- We commit to action and to invest resources, where necessary, to improve DEI at NCB.
- We respect all our people as the sum of many parts; a diverse group of talented people collectively working towards our shared vision.
Our values
Our values act as individual and organisational truths that affect how we behave, how we work together as a team, how we structure our internal processes and how we deliver our mission.
Forever Young
Children and young people are at the heart of what we do. We reflect this energy and optimism in our approach to work.
Better Together
We collaborate from the inside and outside, living up to the trust our partners place in us to do what’s right for children and young people.
Always Learning
Like an inquisitive child, we always ask ‘Why?’, the rigour of our evidence drives our work and helps us challenge ourselves and others not to make assumptions and to search for future progress.
Taking Care
We invest a significant part of ourselves in our work. We respect and value that investment by looking after ourselves and each other.
Being Brave
We don’t shy away from the biggest challenges because that’s where children need us most. We speak the truth with the authority of evidence and experience.
NCB Board of Trustees
April 2025