Equality and Diversity Monitoring Information For Period 7 Source ESR Database Census Data

Equality & Diversity Monitoring - EMAS What is Equality and Diversity Equality Equality is ensuring people are treated fairly and given fair chances. Equality is not about treating everyone in the same way, but it does recognise that their needs are met in different ways. Equality focuses on those areas covered by the law, namely the key areas of race, gender, disability and, more recently, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. A recent amendment to the Race Relations Act adds a duty for us to actively promote race equality and avoid race discrimination, by acting before it happens. People must not be unfairly discriminated against because of any of these factors and we must all work towards creating a positive working environment where discriminatory practices and discrimination do not happen. And diversity? Diversity is about valuing individual differences. Diversity is much more than just a new word for equality. A diversity approach recognises, values and manages difference to enable all employees to contribute and realise their full potential. Diversity challenges us to recognise and value all sorts of differences in order to make EMAS a better place for everyone to work. Why are equality and diversity important? Diversity is about recognising that our clients come from different backgrounds. If we welcome diversity as colleagues, value each other and treat each other fairly, we will work better together. In doing so we will provide a better service to the citizens of the East Midlands. It will help our clients to approach us and use our services if we have a diverse workforce that feels comfortable with and understands their different needs. So diversity will also contribute to improving the services we provide.

Northamptonshire vs. Northamptonshire EMAS

Summary Although the primary demographic age band in the Northamptonshire county is <20, this cannot be replicated in the Northamptonshire EMAS workforce population as this age band encompasses ages 1 to 15 which are not valid employment ages. The difference between the subsequent 3 most dense age bands (30-39, 40-49, 50-59) is only 3% which shows an even spread across the county. This, too can be seen in reflection of the workforce as these age bands constitute 84.2 % of all workers. As realistically and fiscally, a workforce will remain between 20 and 69, the representation of the workforce within and is 15% combined. There is no significant difference between genders in the county as a whole – only a difference of 1.4% more females then males. However, the workforce demonstrates a significant dominance of females: male. There are 15.6% more women then men who work within Northamptonshire EMAS. The ethnic dominance is White in both the county and the workforce. Notably, however, is the indication that although Chinese or Other ethnic groups only represent 0.7% of the total population in the county, it accounts for 9.5% of the workforce in Northamptonshire EMAS. Northamptonshire, as a county, classifies itself as primarily Christian in its religious beliefs. Counter-indicatively the Northamptonshire workforce have predominantly remained undefined. As a identifiable religious following, Christianity is most pertinent religion with atheism and other religions constituting 16% of all the workforce.