We must publish information to show how we comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty under the Equality Act 2010. This is common for most public bodies in the UK.
Equality Reporting
As part of our obligations under the Public Sector Equality Duty we are required to publish information annually on:
- Our gender pay gap as of 31 March each year
- Equalities monitoring of our workforce
- Progress against our Inclusion Strategy
All of this information is included in an annual equality report that we publish on this page each year in the Equality Downloads Section.
Pay Gap Reporting
We have a legal obligation to publish gender pay gap data each year on our website and on the GOV.UK website. This data uses a specific calculation to identify the pay gap between men and women who are employed by the council.
In addition, we publish our disability and ethnicity pay gaps on our website even though there is no legal obligation for us to do so. Like the gender pay gap, these calculate the pay gap between disabled colleagues and colleagues who are not disabled, and colleagues from racially minoritised communities and those who are not.
These pay gaps are included in our annual equality report as well as our pay gap reporting webpage
Equality downloads
(Some of these PDFs are not fully accessible and may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. See: Accessible documents).
- Employment Equality Report 2024[1.34MB]pdf file
- Employment Equality Report 2023[1.08MB]pdf file
- pdf file
Equality analysis
We use equality analysis to improve our services and are focused on fairness, access and inclusion. They help us to consider a policy, service or process in terms of how it might affect different groups protected by law under the Equalities Act 2010.
We use equality analysis to find and remove barriers in services which might stop people knowing about the service, using it and getting the best from it. This is part of our legal duty.
The analysis also help us to open services to new groups and make our services better. They also help us get services right first time, helping to save money and time.