Equality Scheme Appendix 4 - Staff Monitoring

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Staff equalities monitoring information

This report provides an overview of RBK’s equalities employment statistics, and profiles our workforce by age, grade, ethnic origin, gender and disability.   It also reports on our monitoring of recruitment outside schools.

• The pattern of a mature workforce, peaking in the 50 to 64 age range, continues almost unchanged with neither an increase in younger workers, nor a decrease in older workers
• The number of women working for RBK has increased by one per cent from last year. The workforce split is now 79% women and 21% men.
• The number of women part-time workers has grown by one per cent apparently at the expense of male full-timers.
• In 1990 the percentage of the workforce from known black and minority ethnic (BME) communities (excluding teaching staff and manual workers) was 3.5%.
• In 1998 the percentage of the workforce from known BME communities (excluding teaching staff and manual workers) was 5.3%.
• Since 2002 figures for BME staff excludes staff with an Irish background.
• In 2002, the percentage of the workforce from known BME communities was:
  • 11.4% excluding staff employed in schools
  • 4.6% for staff employed in schools
  • 8.5% for all RBK staff
• By 2008 the percentage of the workforce from known BME communities is as follows:
  • 14.1% excluding staff employed in schools
  • 7.8% for staff employed in schools
  • 11.1% for all RBK staff
• The 2001 Census figure puts the proportion of BME communities in the Borough at 15.5%
• 21.34% of RBK employees are teachers and 78% of teachers fall in the highest pay band
• Half our workforce (50.13%) falls in the lowest two pay bands and 99.78% of these are non-teachers
• Band 1 is up to c £16.8K, Band 2 c £22.4K, Band 3 c £29.2K and Band 4 above this level
• The median full-time equivalent salary of our staff is £22,428 and the mean is £26,170