Decision - Fair & inclusive update including ethnicity and disability pay gap reports

1) That Committee notes the report and continues to support and champion actions within the FIAP. 2) That the organisation continues to ensure ethnically diverse panels for all senior posts, and that resource is identified as soon as possible to ensure diverse panels for all recruitment across the council where practicable. 3) That additional guidance is provided to ensure full use is made of positive action that can be applied during recruitment processes including candidate anonymisation and use of Section 159 of the Equality Act 2010 (tiebreaker provision). 4) That the organisation allocates resource effectively and prioritises areas where workforce profile data shows the most under-representation.

The report presents Brighton & Hove City Council’s voluntary disability pay gap based on employees employed on 31 March 2023. Disabled employees had a mean pay gap of 5.3% and a median pay gap of 5.8% compared with employees with no disability, and the council sets out actions to improve the recruitment, retention and progression of disabled staff.