Diversity WeekDiversity Week
The first London 2012 Diversity Week featured a seminar, construction job taster days, recruitment evenings and more. This video shows a few highlights.
John Armitt, Olympic Delivery Authority Chairman: The purpose this week of this conference is to make everybody very well aware of how we've got to step up the game and the challenges that we face and what we can do to meet those challenges.
Tessa Jowell, Olympics Minister: You don't get diversity without being brave, without being self-confident and without being unapologetic.
Paul Deighton, LOCOG Chief Executive: We want to make sure that this unique opportunity to host both the Olpympic Games and the Paralympic Games really helps us make lasting change in this country.
Jean Tomlin, LOCOG Human Resources Director: The team have done a superb job getting the right people in the room. We've clarified certain points around delivery, around legacy, around the importance of sustaining the actions that we take now so that the impact can be found in the felt local communities and that things don't end in 2012, but they continue beyond that.
Jonathan Shaw, Disability Minister: What we are seeing here today is a fantastic opportunity for people who aren't in work to get a taster of what work is like in the construction industry here at the Olympic site.
Participant, Construction taster day: I do want to do digger work to get a job - I did like what I did today, the training today was very fun.
Hugh Sumner, ODA Director of Transport: As a big employer where the Park will have 8,000, the Village will have 8,000 employees so your talking about very large numbers. It gives you an opportunity to do something very different in comparison to a small construction site, and this Park training school here plus the other training schools that are going in places gives us that wider opportunity to make a bigger difference.
Paul Deighton: Let's make sure we've got a terrific mix here because whether it's different genders, an age range, different ethnic backgrounds, you then get an extraordinary range of ideas and the solutions that you come up with - the way you work together is much richer as a result, and it's really really important we get that right.
LOCOG staff member: Without further ado, it's my great pleasure to introduce to you...The Zimmers.
[Singing:]
'We will, we will rock you!...We will, we will Rock You!...'
