Decision details

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Agree the following targets as part of the Council’s Equality and Diversity in Employment Policy:

(a)  That recruitment in any one year should reflect the breakdown of the working population in the Borough;

(b)  To achieve an annual 10% increase in 2015/16 to 2017/18 in the proportion of the workforce from the BME community (i.e. a 2.7% increase in 2015/16 on the baseline of 27%);

(c)  To reduce the number of staff who do not declare whether they have a disability or not by 30% in 2015/16, in order for a suitable target to be set for future years to increase the number of people with disabilities working in the organisation.

(ii)  Support a campaign to promote tolerance of all nine groups recognised as “protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010” equally, to be led by the Divisional Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Central Services; and

(iii)  Agree that officers report further on the issues raised at the meeting relating to recruitment and interviewing, targets within the policy and the funding arrangements for the project.