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Kathy Clements

Head of IDEA Standard at Assent Risk Management (Essex, UK) and creator of the IDEA Standard (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility).

Oct 7, 2026

Exploring Standards with Assent

Exploring Standards with Assent

Inside the IDEA Standard: A New Framework for Workplace Inclusion with Kathy Clements

Oct 7 · 28m

JessHOST
5:05
So why do you feel there was a need for a new standard?
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:09
So, as I said, there's lots of different memberships and schemes and frameworks you can use for different bits of those four categories.
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:18
There's even different bits within the categories.
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:20
You've got, you know, visually impaired disabilities.
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:23
You've got physically impaired disabilities.
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:25
You've got all these different things.
Kathy ClementsGUEST
5:29
The reason that I wanted to bring them all together into one standard was that to make it an easier framework for people was essential.

11 MINS LATER

JessHOST
16:56
Going to some practical questions then, how would an IDEA project work?

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