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Council staff, training and procurement - Equality, diversity, and inclusivity

RFI-2025-0259
Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Request

1) The number of roles in your council (expressed in numbers of full-time employees (FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other guises) “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer” (EDI) or “Diversity and Inclusion Project Managers”.
For all roles meeting this description, please also provide, in order of preference, either
a) the salary of these roles,
b) the pay band of these roles, or
c) the combined total salary of these roles. Please provide the information that is most in accordance with your data processing practices.

Please also advise if the council has any plans to hire further staff in these areas within the next 18 months, and the roles/pay bands that they are likely to occupy.

2) Please provide the number of internal training courses attended by staff which pertain to the issues encompassed by equality, diversity or inclusivity. Please include
a) the name of the courses
b) the number of attendees
c) and the duration of the course.

3) Please, if possible, provide details of any internal EDI practices and networks, including the number of individuals who are members of such networks.

4) Please provide details of any external contractors brought in by the council to conduct training, advice, or guidance on issues relating to EDI. Where applicable this should include costs and associated manhours.

5) Please provide details of how equality, diversity and inclusivity is included in your procurement practices, the relative weight afforded to these considerations, and the current value of contracts in which EDI considerations was a part of the procurement process.

Response

1. None - however EDI is managed as part of another role.
There are no current plans to hire further staff in these areas
2. 
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion course via Ambition Academy, this course is an e-learning that is around 25 minutes.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion course for Managers via Ambition Academy, this course is an e-learning that is around 35 minutes.
107 completed
3. None
4. 
Diversiti
Courses for managers for half day course
Officers had a 2 hour course
Around £12,000
5. 
We don’t specifically weight any questions to those things, hence there will be no value that we could attribute to contracts that have been awarded where EDI has been a consideration.
We do however ensure that where appropriate tender opportunities are published, and we use external procurement support which gives us objectivity in terms of the specification to ensure that EDI is considered as part of the specification.