Equality Data
Equality Data
Employment Monitoring Data 2007-2008
The Vale of Glamorgan Council, in accordance
with its Equality Schemes, is committed to collecting and
publishing monitoring data relating to its services and employment
practices.
Accordingly, the following information is
provided to meet these commitments. From this data* the Council
will be seeking to identify the causes of any shortfalls, and will
take reasonable but necessary action to address these.
Employees
By way of background, as of 31st March 2008 the Council had 4321
employees, with 56 black or other minority ethnic (BME) group
employees equating to 1.73% of the workforce. At the last Census in
2001 the Vale of Glamorgan had a population of 119 292, and a BME
group population of 2576, representing 2.16% of the population.
Equality Training
As part of its on-going equality training programme, Cultural
Awareness Training was provided to 38 employees, Deaf Awareness
Training to 35 employees, and Disability Equality Training to 45
employees during 2006-2007.
Harassment & Bullying Complaints
There was 1 case of harassment and bullying
reported by Council employees during the year 2007-2008. The
complaint was not upheld.
Grievance Complaints
3 employee grievances were lodged during the year, by 2 women
and 1 man. The ethnicity of one of the employees was white and
Welsh, and was not recorded for the remainder. There were 4
grievance appeals, one lodged by a white Welsh employee, 1 lodged
by an employee of mixed ethnicity, and 2 lodged by employees
of unknown ethnicity. 2 of the appellants were male with the other
of unknown gender, and one of the appeals was lodged by a group of
mixed gender employees. There were no known or declared
disabled appellants, and no appeals were upheld. In addition there
was one modified grievance by a white Welsh male that was not
upheld.
Disciplinary
Based on the data received there were 19
disciplinary decisions made. Of these 9 were first
written warnings, 6 were final written warnings, 2 were
dismissals and 2 were dismissal appeals. These involved white
British employees barring one first written warning issued to an
employee of mixed ethnicity. Of the disciplinary appeals, 1 was
upheld and 1 resulted in the employee's reinstatement. There
were no formal oral warnings and no cases were taken to employment
tribunal.
Of the 19 disciplinary decisions made, 14 involved men
and 5 involved women, and none of those involved were known to
have or declared a disability.
Education
There were 9 racist incidents reported within Vale schools.
The ethnicity of those who reported the incidents was 1 mixed
(white & black Carribean), 1 mixed (white and Asian), 1 other
mixed background, 1 white British, and 5 not reported.
64% of BME pupils achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grade A* to grade
C or vocational equivalent.
Libraries
There were 84 520 registered library users for the year,
consisting of 48 757 women and 33 781 men (1982 not indicating
their gender). 1381 of these users identified their ethnicity
as black or other minority ethnic group – representing 1.63% of
members. 1509 customers reported that they were disabled. 2042
users identified themselves as Welsh speakers, and 5837
identified themselves as Welsh learners.
Benefits
There were almost 9300 housing benefits claimants during the
year 2007 to 2008. Of these 581 (6.3%) stated that they were
disabled, 503 (5.4%) described their ethnicity as white Welsh,
80 (0.9%) as white British, 21 (0.2%) as Asian,
10 (0.1%) as black African, 3 (0.03%) as
Chinese, and 1 as white Arabic.
Complaints
96% of all complainants who identified their ethnicity described
themselves as white, and 4% identified themsleves with BME groups.
39% identified themselves as disabled. 50% of complainants were men
and 50% women.