EDI Strategy Interim Report

GOAL 1 - Maintaining an inclusive organisational culture

Our objective:

To create a culture where under-represented groups participate and contribute to our EDI strategy. We must review all instances where unfairness could exist and create inequality, and where we find an opportunity to do better, we must act immediately.

Actions completed:

• Reviewed 54 People policies and policy statements to ensure they meet the needs of our strategy • Introduced a kickstart programme that provided opportunities for 30 young people, many of which were from under-represented groups • Reviewed the recruitment and selection process to ensure that our advertising, application and selection processes are inclusive and accessible to all • Reviewed our careers website to ensure our images fairly represented the diverse workforce that we engage • Rolled out EDI talks to 1092 of our employees ( 62% of our workforce) • Improved our performance management process by moving it online, thereby allowing us to identify disproportionate performance results in our various communities and put actions in place to better understand and address them • Developed our leadership capability through our new Great Leaders career development programme • Continually promoted our ‘Your Voice’ apps to allow concerns to be raised and then addressed sensitively and successfully

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