EDI Strategy Interim Report

GOAL 2 - Increasing diversity through ethnic minority groups

Our objective:

To strengthen the talent from ethnic minority groups at all levels.

Actions completed:

• Set up an ethnic minority employee forum and invited 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 break through said barriers • Strengthened our talent attraction and selection processes to combat unconscious bias by encouraging diverse interview panels • Improved the photography on our website to promote and demonstrate our diversity • 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 47% of the Apprentice population • Supported and developed high performing individuals from ethnic minority groups through our Great Leaders career development programme, which includes mentoring and support activities. 14% of our successful candidates were from these communities • Calculated our Ethnicity pay gap to identify any issues or concerns

Apprentices from ethnic minority groups

n

47%

n Apprentices who are white British

53%

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