EDI Strategy Interim Report

GOAL 3 - Increasing diversity through the LGBTQIA+ community

Our objective:

To create an environment where LGBTQIA+ community members can confidently be their authentic selves in our business. This confidence will be evidenced by capture of declaration data to enable us to understand levels and to manage and support effectively.

Actions completed:

• Set up a LGBTQIA+ employee forum and invited members from the LGBTQIA+ and non LGBTQIA+ community to actively engage and encourage discussion to better understand barriers to recruitment and progression and to learn how to disrupt and break through said barriers • Investigated the reasons why there are high ‘prefer not to say’ rates with respect to sexual orientation and rolled out EDI talks to encourage the capture of gender identify information so that we can better understand needs in this area and guide actions in support of increasing representation and inclusion of trans people • Continually promoted our SpeakOut app to allow concerns to be raised and then addressed sensitively and successfully

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