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Poole Borough Council Workforce Diversity Poole Borough Council Workforce Diversity Analysis April 2017 – March 2018 Contents Borough of Poole – Workforce Diversity Analysis 2017/18 0 Contents Contents........................................................................................................................................... 0 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 2 2. Headlines ..................................................................................................................................... 3 3. Employment rates, leavers and starters ....................................................................................... 4 3.1. Gender ................................................................................................................................... 4 3.2. Age ........................................................................................................................................ 6 3.3. Ethnicity ................................................................................................................................. 6 3.4. Sexual Orientation ................................................................................................................. 7 3.5. Religion and Belief ................................................................................................................. 7 3.6. Disability ................................................................................................................................ 7 4. Training ........................................................................................................................................ 8 5. Recruitment and Selection ........................................................................................................... 8 6. Recruitment Agency Employees .................................................................................................. 9 7. Employment Issues ...................................................................................................................... 9 8. Summary .................................................................................................................................... 10 9. Recommendations and areas for consideration ......................................................................... 11 Appendix A – This is who we are 2018 .......................................................................................... 12 Borough of Poole – Workforce Diversity Analysis 2017/18 1 1. Introduction The Public Sector Equality Duty has two specific duties, with which public authorities must comply to help them demonstrate performance of the general duty. Each body must prepare and publish one or more objectives that it thinks it needs to achieve to further any of the aims of the general equality duty. The specific duties for public authorities in England are to publish information to demonstrate compliance with the general equality duty, at least annually. This must include information relating to people who share a protected characteristic1 who are employees within that authority. This report is based on employment data of Poole Borough Council’s workforce and covers the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018. Comparisons are made with previous years where applicable. The report covers several employment areas broken down by protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010. Data on which this report is based has been provided by the Human Resources Team. Our equality monitoring data, relates to employees, or potential employees, and is submitted on a voluntary basis, an option for ‘prefer not to say’ is available. Whilst the Council has a duty to ask for this information and proactively encourages people to provide it we also recognise that it is provided on a voluntary basis and as such people are not obliged to provide the information requested. References to the information being ‘unknown’ denotes individuals who have chosen not to provide information or whose information has not been recorded for any other reason. To enable comparisons to be made with the wider working age population, “unknown” and “prefer not to say” have been removed from the percentage calculations - in other words the percentages within this report relate only to those people that we have information about. Where possible, comparisons have been made to Poole’s working age population as reported in the 2011 Census of Population. All data has been extracted from Employee First (the Council’s integrated HR and payroll system) which provides a centralised view of the workforce and employment data. Employees are able to update their own information in respect of disability, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. The Borough of Poole’s Workforce Strategy 2016-19 sets out how the Council aims to support the workforce over this 3 year period and includes workforce development related aims and objectives. Where relevant, the strategy is referenced in this report. 1 Protected characteristics are the nine groups protected under the Equality Act 2010. They are: age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race religion or belief sex sexual orientation Borough of Poole – Workforce Diversity Analysis 2017/18 2 2. Headlines Employment rates, leavers and starters The total number of staff has decreased by 0.15% from 2,101 in 2017 to 2,098 in 2018. These figures do not include casual staff of which there were 17. 451 employees left the organisation compared with 256 in the previous year. 489 joined the organisation compared to 298 who joined in 2016/17. 38% of new starters in 2017/18 were men which is an 6% increase from 32% in 2016/17. 62.5% of the Council’s employees are full time. Gender The men/women is ratio is approximately 2 to 1 being 36% are men and 64% are women. Women account for 85% of the part time work force and 50% of the full time workforce. Women’s mean hourly rate is 2.9% lower than men. Women’s median hourly rate is 2.2% higher than men. 65.9% of employees in the top quartile are women (highest paid). 61.8% of employees in the lower quartile are women (lowers paid). Age The age range of employees is consistent however the 16-24 age bracket are underrepresented making up 5% of the workforce. 24% of the workforce are over 55 and could retire within the next 10 years. Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Religion and Belief and Disability 93.5% of the workforce (who declared their ethnicity) are White British which is slightly above the 91% within the local population (2011 census) The highest proportion of non-white staff are in the Strategy Directorate (8.3%) The ethnic, sexual orientation, disability and religion or belief profiles of the workforce broadly reflects that of the population. However, a high percentage of the data relating to the status of the Council’s workforce is unknown or missing as follows: 25% for Ethnicity 59% for Sexual Orientation 58% for Religion or Belief 35% for Disability The proportion of new starters with a disability has increased from 1.3% in 2016/17 to 2.2% in 2017/18. Training Monitoring data related to applications for training is not collected. Borough of Poole – Workforce Diversity Analysis 2017/18 3 Recruitment and Selection Data collection at the application and appointment stage is limited as only 48% of their ethnicity and 45% of their sexual orientation is known. 3. Employment rates, leavers and starters The total number of staff in post (excluding schools) as at 31st March 2018 has decreased by 0.15% from Number of Staff in Post 2,101 in 2017 to 2,098, in 2018. 2,110 The total number of employees leaving the Council between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2018 was 451 2,090 2,101 2,098 which is a significant increase when compared to the 256 employees who left the organisation during the 2,070 same period in 2016/17. The total number of new starters has increased from 2,050 298 in 2016/17 to 489 in 2017/18. It should be noted 2017 2018 that the change in the snapshot headcount is not equal to the net of applicants appointed and the number of leavers. However, in 2017/18 a number of staff were transferred from the Borough of Poole to Bournemouth Council and vice versa as a result of shared services. Some staff opted for voluntary redundancy during this process which may explain the difference between the number of starters and leavers. 95% of employees in post in March 2018 were permanent which is consistent with 2017. The remainder were casual or fixed term. Full-time employees account for most of the workforce with 62.5% of employees working full-time. These proportions are the same as the previous year. No data is available around the number of applicants for posts. 3.1. Gender The ratio of women to men is 2:1 which is Employee Gender consistent with 2016/17. [VALUE The Service Unit with the highest proportion of 64% ]% men is Environmental Services (84%), followed by Growth and Infrastructure (56%) and ICT and Customer Support (52%). The largest proportion of women were found in Men Women Children, Young People and Learning (91%), followed by Children, Young People Social Care (84%) and Commissioning and Improvement – People Services (83%). Borough of Poole – Workforce Diversity Analysis 2017/18 4 Although women make up 64% of the workforce they are more likely to be part- Number of Employees by Full Time time.
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