EDI training
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 23/5691
Version Date: 04/12/2023
Please tell me the following:
1. Broken down annually, from 2019 to present how many training sessions related to ‘Diversity Equity and Inclusion’ have employees of your organisation been invited to complete? If possible, please detail how many of these training sessions were mandatory for employees to attend, and how many were voluntary. If possible, please also detail how many of these training sessions were led by internal staff, and how many by external providers.
The following are the sessions completed on line session named The Equality Act 2010 which is specifically related to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. In addition to this specific training, there are various other training inputs on a variety of different courses that may have an element of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion but are not solely based on it.
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Year |
Number |
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2019 |
245 |
|
2020 |
387 |
|
2021 |
349 |
|
2022 |
435 |
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2023 |
401 |
Please share with me the titles of the five most recent DEI-based training sessions provided to your organisation’s employees.
Sexual harassment in the workplace
ILP
Neurodiversity e learning
Abuse of position for a sexual purpose
Bystander training
2. How many staff members whose role is predominantly focussed on DEI does your organisation employ? For example, employees with titles such as ‘diversity manager’, ‘head of inclusion’, or ‘head of culture’. Please also inform me how many such roles your organisation held at year end (or whenever you measured them) in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
We currently have 5 roles within Devon and Cornwall Police that have the above within their role titles.
3. Please inform me how many internal grievances have been raised by employees of your organisation from 2019 to present, broken down by year.
Please see the below, this includes grievances that may be open or closed but the stage 1 was received by the line manager of the individual:
2019: 37
2020: 16
2021: 23
2022: 53
4. Please inform me how many internally raised grievances have resulted in disciplinary procedures being instigated from 2019 to present, broken down by year.
This information is not held.
5. Please inform me how many of your employees have received sanctions following disciplinary procedures that arose as a result of internally raised grievances from 2019 to present, broken down by year. If possible, please detail how many instances of each outcome were enacted (EG number of written warnings, number of dismissals etc); please also break this information down by calendar year.
This information is not held.
6. If possible, please inform me what your organisation’s total expenditure (or budget, if expenditure is too time-consuming/difficult to calculate) has been for external ‘DEI’ training sessions from 2019 to present, broken down by year.
2020: £41,500
2021: £38,720
2022: £39,500K
2023: £5327
7. If possible, please inform me what your organisation’s current salary budget or expenditure (whichever is more convenient) is for staff members whose roles are predominantly focussed around DEI. Please also provide this information for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, broken down by calendar or financial year, whichever is more convenient.
2019 £193,457.89
2020 £207,968.73
2021 £227,670.71
2022 £229,385.61
8. If possible, please tell me how many staff your organisation currently employs. Please also tell me how many staff your organisation employed (at whichever point in the years you have measurements to hand for – EG year-end) in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019.
The below is a link to previous Home Office establishment information submissions for year-end snap shots as at 31st March each year and also the half year submissions (a smaller data return) for data as at 30th Sept – this is in the public domain so the requestor can self-serve for the historical data. For staff, the index to view information for staff, designated officers and PCSOs will capture what the request requires.
Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Regarding current staff establishment, please see below information as at 31st October 2023. Data was a snap shot as it was recorded on the system at the time of download. The below data is provided as per the Home Office counting rules (includes career breaks, and excludes external secondments) for data continuity for the request:
D&C Officer: 3632.16 FTE (full time equivalent)
D&C Staff (all staff relevant staff types combined): 2116.46 (full time equivalent)