2.42% is the highest percentage total of employees recorded since 2010-11. This is still disproportionately low in comparison to the % of disabled people in the local population. In 2020 74.6% (10,754) of employees had not recorded under this characteristic. This has improved by 6.5% with 68.14% not recording.

The disability pay gap is 4.20%  with those who consider themselves to be disabled earning £0.69 less on average per hour than those who do not consider themselves to be disabled. In 2021 the pay gap was 9.79%.  A reduction therefore of 5.5%. This figure has been calculated using the recorded information for disability and not including those who have not recorded or prefer not to say.

Over 3% of leavers in 2022 were disabled – higher than the proportion of disabled employees.

But 2.92% (<5 people ) of promotions went to disabled employees again this is higher than the composition of the workforce. However, 68.14% of people did not disclose under this category.

There was considerably more appointments made in 2022 than in 2020 nearly double.

28.4% of all disabled applicants were interviewed and of those 26% were appointed. That is over 9% of total appointments went to disabled people. This is proportionately greater than in all of the previous years when only 2-3% of disabled people were appointed.