Agenda item

Equality Annual Performance Report

Report of the Town Clerk.

 

Appendix 1: 2020 Equality Annual Performance Summary to follow.

 

Minutes:

The Committee received a Report of the Town Clerk concerning the Equality Annual Performance Summary.

 

Highlighting the self-assessment ratings, the Head of Corporate Strategy & Performance confirmed that departments have not been named for now, so as to encourage full candour.

 

A Member queried why the proportion of staff with a protected characteristic fell short of both the London Council and London Civil Service benchmarks. Officers responded that the range of roles at the Corporation were very different to local authorities, for example, it was not uncommon for London Boroughs to employ to 60 to 70 social workers, this compared to approx. 10 at the City. The London Civil Service benchmark was new, so further analysis would be required before officers could provide a fuller answer

 

Responding to a query, the Head of Corporate Strategy & Performance stressed that, whilst the aim was to bring back a firm plan for the 2021/24 Equality and Diversity objectives in the autumn, further resources needed to be identified in the interim to complete this work.

 

In addition, it was confirmed that the City Corporation ranked at 50 (out of 119) on the 2020 Social Mobility Employer Index; whilst this marked an improvement from 2019 (56), the aspiration was to continue to improve.

 

The Chair thanked officers for their hard work and reminded Members that they still had an opportunity to feed into the process; the Report had yet to be published and communications would need to be scoped out before wider circulation.

 

RESOLVED – that the Committee noted the Report.

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