With lots of charities furloughing staff, I started thinking of some questions senior teams and boards should consider as they make their decisions. Inequality will be further embedded if not. Be great if others could add theirs too. Twitter do your thing 1/

- Analyse your diversity data against your furlough plans.
- are you disproportionately furloughing any one group?
- are you disproportionately protecting any privileged group?
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- are those left to run the organisation and make decisions a diverse and representative group of people? If not, what are the obvious risks to their decision making ability, and to what they will create when they reset the organisation once this has passed?
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- what are the impacts of furlough on different protected characteristics? Both negative & positive? What can be maintained from the positive? What can be mitigated from the negative?
- how will you keep in touch with furloughed staff? 4/

- what will you offer to support return to work?
- how will you review & act on impacts of furlough on staff with protected characteristics?
- Do those you seek to serve during this crisis still have representation in those left in your organisation?
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- when making decisions on what work is critical to continue how are you considering the impact of discontinuing that work on marginalised communities?
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- when making decisions on what work is critical to continue are you checking that those making decisions are not unconsciously biased or lack the lens that lived experience brings? 7/8

There are many more that keep occurring to me...but a starting point at least. 8/8 @CharitySoWhite

Excellent questions Leila! Completely agree that values seem to have immediately slipped. People (and orgs) retreat to old patterns and habits in times of crisis. It takes conscious effort to hold true to organisational values.