[diversityliving] FOI Request - Haringey Council's Equality and Diversity in Practice [1 Attachment]

 

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Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/4743415

 

Thank you for your request for information received on 26 October 2015, in which you asked for the following information:

 

1. Please send me the Council's reports about the implementation of your Equality and Diversity Scheme for the last three years.

 

2. Please send me the information about the nature and description of Haringey Council's contracts awarded to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) businesses in the last there years, including the support provided to BAME businesses to win Barnet Council's contracts. Please send me your report about the action undertaken by the Council to minimise the disadvantages usually experienced by BAME small organisations and business in competing for Haringey's contracts.

 

3. Please send me the information about the proportion of BAME staff employed by the Council, especially in the management positions.

 

4. Please send me the report that you may have showing the breakdown of Black people and other BAME residents who have applied for jobs within the London Borough of Haringey  including the rates of applicants invited for interviews and the pass rates of the interviews by Black and BAME  applicants.

 

5. Engagement and Participation: Please send me any report that you may have in relation to the Council's engagement with BAME people and organisations based or serving London the Borough of  Haringey. We are interested in the Council's engagement work undertaken directly with BAME people and organisations. Please send me the information about the level of participation of BAME people and organisations in the Council's consultations.  Please let us know how you know BAME residents? needs and priorities to inform your service delivery framework.

 

6. Please also send me the information about the rate of unemployment from Black and other BAME people residents of LBH and the information about the Council 's support  to unemployed BAME people in accessing the labour market.

 

My response is as follows:

 

1. The Council published its annual report on the implementation of its equality scheme for 2012/13 and 2013/14. From 2013 our equalities objectives were embedded within the Council's Corporate plan and progress reported through the regular performance reporting on this plan.

 

The Council's current Corporate Plan is a 3 year plan and runs from 2015-18. It includes a cross-cutting theme of a Fair and Equal Borough which covers our equality and diversity objectives over the lifetime of the plan.

 

I have attempted to attach the following files:

·         Corporate Equality annual report 2012-13

·         Equality objectives progress update 2013/14 – see pages 11-14

·         The Council's Corporate Plan 2013/14-14/15

·         Example quarterly performance reports from 2013/14 and 2014/15

·         The Council's current Corporate Plan 2015-18

 

However, they are undeliverable due to their size. I will attempt to send the attachments separately.

 

All performance reports and the Council's current performance management reporting can be found on the Haringey website:

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/performance-and-finance/council-performance

 

2. Procurement does not hold information on contracts awarded to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people.

 

3. The Council produces a quarterly Equalities Scorecard giving a profile of the council's workforce. A copy of the Scorecard can be found on the council's website - http://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/about-council/equalities-haringey

 

4. The Scorecard also gives details of recruitment in terms of applicants and new starters across the council, categorised by age, disability and race, we don't keep data for all shortlisted candidates separately. The recruitment data that is captured is for all applicants regardless of whether or not they are residents of the borough.

 

5. There is no specific report relating to engagement with BAME people and organisations. A monitoring form is included as part of consultation activity, where relevant and appropriate, to monitor participation for different groups. However, we are not currently collating this information centrally. The Council works closely with its Voluntary and Community Sector partner HAVCO to identify key voluntary and community organisations, including those representing BAME groups. The Council also keeps a database of key groups that represent different communities in the borough. Services should complete a stakeholder map of key community groups as part of the consultation process and these groups are notified of upcoming consultations.

 

The needs and priorities of BAME residents inform our service delivery framework in two ways:

·         Business intelligence data includes local and national data which highlights needs and priorities for different groups of residents – including BAME groups - and helps to inform the Council's overall corporate objectives and service planning

·         The Equalities Impact Assessment process requires services to consider the needs of different groups when planning service provision. The results of consultation with service users is expected to inform the EqIA and is formally recorded within EqIA documents.   

 

6. Labour market data of this nature are in the public domain and can be accessed from the following link:

 

www.nomisweb.co.uk

 

By way of summary, below are two tables showing ethnic minority employment and unemployment rates:

 

Employment rates

 

	July 2011-June 2012	July 2012-June 2013	July 2013-June 2014	July 2014-June 2015
Haringey – all people aged 16-64	66.2%	67.4%	69.9%	70.5%
Haringey – ethnic minorities aged 16-64	56.3%	54.1%	59.1%	57.3%
London – all people aged 16-64	67.3%	68.7%	70.6%	72.2%
London – ethnic minorities aged 16-64	58.7%	59.9%	61.7%	63.8%
England – all people aged 16-64	70.2%	71.1%	72.0%	73.3%
England – ethnic minorities aged 16-64	58.7%	59.1%	60.3%	62.1%

Source: Annual Population Survey

 

 

Unemployment rates

 

	July 2011-June 2012	July 2012-June 2013	July 2013-June 2014	July 2014-June 2015
Haringey – all people aged 16+	9.3%	9.0%	8.3%	6.2%
Haringey – ethnic minorities aged 16+	17.8%	17.5%	15.9%	10.7%
London – all people aged 16+	9.5%	9.2%	7.7%	6.6%
London – ethnic minorities aged 16+	14.4%	14.3%	12.2%	9.4%
England – all people aged 16+	8.1%	7.8%	6.8%	5.6%
England – ethnic minorities aged 16+	13.7%	14.1%	12.4%	9.7%

Source: Annual Population Survey

 

Haringey Council has an employment service, the Haringey Employment and Skills Team (HEST), that offers support to unemployed and economically inactive residents seeking work.  At least 50% of the people HEST works with will be from an ethnic minority background.   More information about HEST can be accessed from the link below:

 

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/help-getting-job/employment-skills-team

 

Also, the Council has launched an apprenticeship scheme offering opportunities (with the Council and other employers) to local people, including people from ethnic minority groups.  More information about the scheme and the opportunities currently available can be accessed from the link below:

 

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/training-and-apprenticeships/apprenticeships

 

In addition, the Council has also been successful in managing and delivering employment programmes that support people from an ethnic minority background.  To illustrate this point, below is data from a European Social Fund programme that Haringey Council managed (and partly delivered) across Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest from June 2012 to September 2014:

 

Output	Total	Ethnic Minorities
Registration	1,444	1,022 (71%)
Job start	603	427 (71%)
Sustained job (26 weeks)	378	279 (74%)
Conversion rate (sustained jobs as a percentage of registrations)	26%	27%

 

 

 

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Forward to a friend | Web version | Unsubscribe November 2015 Dear colleague, Welcome to the October - November 2015 edition of our regular health ebulletin bringing you news from LVSC, Regional Voices (of which LVSC is a constituent member), the Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England and Care Quality Commission. Ebulletins may include information from London's voluntary & community sector (VCS) as well as regional policy news - e.g. from the Greater London Authority, NHS England (London region), London Senate, etc. We also intend to keep you up to date on the government's Five Year Forward View, including the vanguards in London. If you wish to discuss any items to be included in future bulletins, please feel free to contact me. Warmest wishes, Sandra Sandra van der Feen Policy Officer, LVSC sandra@lvsc.org.uk Mondays - Wednesdays only   LVSC news LVSC health work update LVSC has responded to the VCSE Review (see below). 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PM: Time to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality

PM: Time to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality

The Prime Minister will announce that organisations will pledge to recruit on a ‘name blind’ basis to address discrimination.

 

·         under new agreement, names will not be visible on graduate recruitment applications, reducing potential discrimination

·         leading graduate employers from across the public and private sector commit to new scheme

·         this will include applicants to the Civil Service, Teach First, HSBC, Deloitte, Virgin Money, KPMG, BBC, NHS, learndirect and local government

Organisations from across the public and private sector, together responsible for employing 1.8 million people in the UK, signed up to the pledge to operate recruitment on ‘name blind’ basis to address discrimination, the Prime Minister announced at a Downing Street roundtable later today.

The roundtable included:

·         David Barnes, Managing Partner for Public Policy at Deloitte

·         Tanuj Kapilashrami, Head of Human Resources at HSBC

·         John Manzoni, Chief Executive Officer of the Civil Service

·         Simon Stevens, Chief Executive Officer of NHS England

·         Marianne Fallon, Partner and Head of Corporate Affairs at KPMG

·         James Purnell, BBC’s Director of Strategy and Digital

View a readout of the roundtable discussions and find out who attended the meeting.

The Prime Minister said:

I said in my conference speech that I want us to end discrimination and finish the fight for real equality in our country today. Today we are delivering on that commitment and extending opportunity to all.

If you’ve got the grades, the skills and the determination this government will ensure that you can succeed.

The announcement follows the Prime Minister’s speech to Conservative Party Conference, where he cited research showing that people with white-sounding names are nearly twice as likely to get job call-backs than people with ethnic-sounding names.

The Civil Service is today committing to introducing name-blind recruitment for all roles below Senior Civil Service (SCS) level. Other top graduate recruiters like KPMG, HSBC, Deloitte, Virgin Money, BBC, NHS, learndirect and local government are joining organisations like Teach First by committing to deliver name-blind applications for all graduate and apprenticeship level roles.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) will be promoting the benefits of name-blind recruitment and will be working towards embedding this as standard through its training and development courses. This means the approach is likely to spread more widely throughout the private sector.

Chief Executive Officer of the Civil Service, John Manzoni:

I’m delighted to expand the Civil Service’s use of name-blind applications – not just for all graduate and apprenticeship level roles, but for many other external applications too.

It’s vital that the Civil Service takes a lead on this, and I’m confident that this important step will help us build an organisation that is even more talented, diverse and effective than it is today.

David Sproul, Senior Partner and Chief Executive of Deloitte, said:

At Deloitte, we are working hard to ensure that our talent pool is diverse and reflects the make-up of today’s society. We want to show that everyone can thrive, develop and succeed in our firm based on their talent, regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

The introduction of name-blind recruitment processes and school and university-blind interviews will help prevent unconscious bias and ensure that job offers are made on the basis of potential – not ethnicity, gender or past personal circumstance.

James Darley, Executive Director, Graduate Recruitment, Teach First said:

Today’s pledge is a great day for graduates and employers across the country. I applaud the many leading organisations’ and the government’s efforts to ensure name-blind recruitment – something that Teach First has championed in its recruitment of new teachers for over 5 years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-time-to-end-discrimination-and-finish-the-fight-for-real-equality