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Annual Equality Monitoring Workforce Report

Meeting: 01/07/2019 - Personnel Board (Item 9)

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To consider the Annual Equality Monitoring Workforce Report.

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Minutes:

The Board considered the Annual Equality Monitoring Report.  The Council had a duty to have an equality action plan for its workforce.  The Equality Monitoring Report was owned by the Equality Action Group.

 

During the discussion of this item the following points were made:

 

·         The annual report provided information on employees obtained from the Council’s monitoring processes and procedures, which allows the Council to meet the reporting requirements outlined in the Equality Act 2010. 

·         A key challenge was getting staff to include their equality data on BWO, even if they put ‘prefer not to say.’

·         The Council looked at the data it received to ascertain whether its workforce was representative of its population.

·         Councillor Halsall asked the Council were less represented in some areas.  Sarah Swindley commented that it was not.

·         In response to a question regarding staff paid over £50,000 Lee Washbrook indicated that there was information on the Council’s website under the transparency section regarding this.  Sarah Swindley agreed to send the link to the website to Members.

·         Councillor Helliar-Symons referred to work on recruitment and retention of Children’s Services staff that a Task and Finish Group had undertaken.  She hoped that the Task and Finish Group’s final report which contained a number of recommendations would be taken into consideration.

·         Councillor Doran asked about the number of staff that worked flexibly.  He was informed that the workforce data would indicate the make up of the workforce.

·         Councillor Ferris asked about staff morale.  Sarah Swindley indicated that an employment engagement survey was being developed and would be circulated in September.  The results would be presented to the Personnel Board.

 

RESOLVED:  That the 2019-2020 Annual Equality Workforce Monitoring Report be approved.