The largest Black and minority ethnic group is Asian Pakistani followed by African. As a % it is low in comparison to the local BAME population.

The total number of recorded BAME employees has doubled from 63 employees in 2018 to 123 in 2022. This is significant as the number of employees not recording has also increased from 21%  to 22.5%%.  The number of Asian Pakistani employees has increased from 15 to 37 employees since 2017 and the number of African employees has increased from 10 – 25 since 2020.

The pay gap has reduced since 2020 from 2.3% to 0.7%. In 2020 BAME employees earned £0.41/ hour more than non-BAME people. In 2023 they earn £0.01 less an hour.

In 2022 three times as many BAME employees left the Council as did in 2020. However, there was a 25.3% rise in the total numbers of BAME employees.

No promotions were made again to BAME employees despite the numbers of promotions doubling.

62.9% of BAME people who applied to work for the Council in 2022 were interviewed which was much greater than 2020 when only 16.4% were. However, of those interviewed only 4.5%  were appointed, less than in 2020 when 13.5% of those who were interviewed were appointed. 1.7% of all appointments went to BAME people.

In 2020 only 16.4% of BAME applicants were interviewed, however 13.5% of those were appointed (compared with 4.5% in 2022. Overall 0.9% of appointments went to BAME people.

So, while interviews for BAME people has nearly quadrupled since 2020, the % of those appointed has reduced from 13.5% to 4.5%. There was nearly double the number of appointments compared to 2020 overall and the % of BAME people appointed was 1.73% (36 people).

30% of white British people who were interviewed were appointed. That is 93.2% of all appointments.

Records show no applications for Smarter Working from BAME employees in 2022 or in 2020.