Empower your people with the insight and confidence to recognise, prevent, and effectively manage equal pay risks.

This practical e‑learning programme gives public sector professionals the skills and confidence to identify, address, and mitigate equal pay risks. Blending clear guidance with real‑world scenarios, it strengthens organisational understanding of equal pay and supports compliant, evidence‑based decision‑making. Additional targeted modules for HR professionals and senior leaders provide tailored tools and resources to help them meet their expanded responsibilities and drive robust equal pay compliance across the organisation. 

Who is this programme for?

This programme is ideal for any managers working for a local authority who are responsible for pay, reward, or people‑management decisions and who want to strengthen their confidence and capability in ensuring equal pay compliance. It supports individuals in effectively meeting their responsibilities, and organisations aiming to reduce risk and build a culture of accountability around equal pay.

  • Managers seeking to make consistent, compliant pay and grading decisions.
  • HR professionals responsible for job evaluation, reward frameworks, and pay governance.
  • Senior leaders overseeing organisational risk, culture, and workforce equality objectives.

 

What will they learn?

This programme develops the practical skills local authority managers, HR professionals and Leaders need to confidently manage equal pay risks in their remit. The programme is tailored to the needs of each role. 

  • Equal Pay Essentials - Builds core understanding of what equal pay means in practice, how pay disparities can arise, and how to respond appropriately when issues are identified.
  • Equal Pay for HR Professionals - Equips HR teams with the skills to design and assure job evaluation frameworks, conduct and interpret equal pay audits, and strengthen governance through ongoing monitoring.
  • Equal Pay for Leaders - Enables senior leaders to manage equal pay as a strategic risk by setting strong governance, using data‑led oversight, and modelling fair, transparent pay decisions.

 

Key facts

Qualification
CPD  
Duration
c 30-60 minutes  
Provider
Grant Thornton  
Entry requirements
Manager, HR Professional or Senior Leader in a Local Authority  
Delivery
e-learning  

3 Modules tailored to specific roles:

Equal Pay Essentials - Mangers 

  • Understanding where and how equal pay risks can materialise, and their impact.
  • Identifying and challenging practices which may result in equal pay risk using evidence-based reasoning and structured analysis.‑based reasoning and structured analysis.

Equal Pay for HR professionals 

  • What to look for in workforce and pay data to identify systemic risks or emerging patterns. 
  • Designing and maintaining equal pay processes, tools, and assurance mechanisms.

Equal Pay for Leaders 

  • Ability to reflect and assess how effectively equal pay risk is being managed in their local authority
  • Practical steps to ensure they are getting assurance as a Leader over their equal pay risk
Assessment
Each module includes a knowledge test assessment and key takeaways and resources to support ongoing learning and application of knowledge.  
Fees and funding
Price upon request  

Key benefits

Organisational understanding of Equal Pay risk

Ensure all managers in an organisation understand their responsibilities in identifying and mitigating equal pay risks. 
 

Proactive risk
management

Equip leaders and HR professionals with the understanding and tools to proactively manage and respond to Equal Pay Risks.

Flexible e-learning that fits your schedule

Access online training anytime, giving you a flexible online schedule that can be built into your team’s existing workloads.

Equal pay risk is shaped by everyday decisions, not just policy. Recruitment choices, job design, market adjustments and allowances all have real consequences — and if they’re inconsistently applied, equal pay risks materialise. Effective risk management relies on everyone understanding the impact of their actions. When managers, HR, and leaders all recognise their part in keeping pay practices fair and defensible, councils are far better placed to spot issues early and minimise litigation risk.
Simon Christian Director, Public Services Consulting.

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