Disclosure Log
Council staff, training and procurement: Equality, diversity, and inclusivity (FOI/5437)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 14 March 2025
Dear *****
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00005437
Thank you for your email of 19 February 2025 where you requested information about council staff, training and procurement in relation to equality, diversity and inclusivity.
The information you requested is:
1) The number of roles in your council (expressed in numbers of full-time employees (FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. For example, this could include (amongst other guises) "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer” (EDI) or "Diversity and Inclusion Project Managers”. – One FTE
For all roles meeting this description, please also provide, in order of preference, either a) the salary of these roles, b) the pay band of these roles, or c) the combined total salary of these roles. Please provide the information that is most in accordance with your data processing practices. – Hay Band D
Please also advise if the council has any plans to hire further staff in these areas within the next 18 months, and the roles/pay bands that they are likely to occupy. - No
2) Please provide the number of internal training courses attended by staff which pertain to the issues encompassed by equality, diversity or inclusivity. Please include the name of the courses, the number of attendees, and the duration of the course.
We have a new system in place since end of November, we are still rolling it out on a phased basis therefore have provided what we currently have available with attendance numbers:
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion E-learning. Takes approximately 1 hour. 3,872 completions.
- Half day workshop on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – 34
3) Please, if possible, provide details of any internal EDI practices and networks, including the number of individuals who are members of such networks.
LGBTQ+ - 44
Black Workers Network – 180
Disability Network – 74
Neurodivergent Network –152
4) Please provide details of any external contractors brought in by the council to conduct training, advice, or guidance on issues relating to EDI.. Where applicable this should include costs and associated manhours. – There are no corporate contractors linked to EDI.
5) Please provide details of how equality, diversity and inclusivity is included in your procurement practices, the relative weight afforded to these considerations, and the current value of contracts in which EDI considerations was a part of the procurement process. – Equality, diversity and inclusivity is addressed as Discretionary Exclusion Grounds under Annex D of the Selection Questionnaire. This questionnaire is mandatory for all open market procurements above threshold. Equality Impact Assessments are completed on all contracts.
Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests. For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.
Yours sincerely
Colin Sawers (He/Him)
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP
Tel: (0115) 977 3714