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GOAL 2

INCREASING DIVERSITY THROUGH OUR ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITY

Nearly a quarter of colleagues at FM Conway are from ethnic minority communities, which is a positive figure and is above the economically active population. However, we recognise that despite the work we have done, this is still underrepresented at more senior levels. Therefore, there will be a continued focus on tackling this persistent underrepresentation through positive action, talent programmes, and targeted support. „ Established a Culture and Faith employee forumwhich invites members from both ethnic minority and white British communities to actively engage and encourage discussion, to better understand barriers to recruitment and progression, and learn about how to disrupt and overcome said barriers „ Rolled out unconscious bias recruitment and selection training to over 100 of our recruiting managers „ Ensured that emerging talent initiatives such as our Apprenticeship programme created stretch opportunities to nurture young people from ethnic minority groups. These employees currently make up 39% of the Apprentice population Our Progress

We have reviewed our monitoring form using feedback directly from our Culture & Faith employee forum to reduce ‘prefer not to say’ responses. Only by understanding the make-up of our workforce can we truly support them.

To strengthen the talent from ethnic minority groups at all levels across the business, including senior management positions. Our Objective

Future Plans

„ Supported and developed high

„ Strengthen our talent attraction and selection processes to combat unconscious bias by using diverse interview panels „ Use positive action statements in all targeted recruitment campaigns „ Build on our revamped performance management process; we will identify disproportionality and put actions in place to better understand and address it „ Ensure that emerging talent initiatives create stretching opportunities to nurture identified high-potential colleagues from underrepresented ethnic minority groups

„ Ensure that there is representation from the Culture and Faith employee forum at the EDI Committee meetings to allow concerns and ideas to be raised „ Support and develop high-performing individuals from ethnic minority groups through a career development programme which includes mentoring and support activities

performing individuals from ethnic minority groups through our Great Leaders career development programme, which includes mentoring and support activities. 18% of our successful candidates that graduated before April 2024 were from these communities, and 27% of our current cohort are from ethnic minority groups „ Where necessary, we improved our prayer facilities to ensure that our colleagues have somewhere quiet to pray without interruption „ Implemented translation tools to support colleagues where English is not their first language „ Calculated our ethnicity pay gap to identify any issues or concerns

„ Actively engage and encourage discussion with Ethnic Diversity

Champions and organisations to better understand barriers to progression and learn from their considered opinions about how to disrupt and overcome them

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