Training sessions related to 'Diversity Equality and Inclusion' - Find a freedom of information request

My questions are related to 'diversity, equality and inclusion' (DEI). I recognise organisations may have different names for 'diversity, equality and inclusion'.

Therefore, in the spirit of The Freedom of Information Act, please take this phrase to also mean 'diversity, equality and inclusion' or whatever your organisation terms the DEI framework, and to apply to discrete elements of the DEI framework - EG 'diversity' training sessions, or 'inclusivity' training sessions, as well as training sessions that are related to the DEI framework - EG 'unconscious bias' training, or 'gender identity' training.

Please tell me the following:

1. Broken down annually, from 2019 to present how many training sessions related to 'Diversity Equality 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.

a) Please share with me the titles of the five most recent DEI-based training sessions provided to your organisation's employees.

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.

3. Please inform me how many internal grievances have been raised by employees of your organisation from 2019 to present, broken down by year.

4. Please inform me how many internally raised grievances have resulted in disciplinary procedures being instigated from 2019 to present, broken down by year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. In each year since 2019 there have been 7 courses available for staff to attend and an additional course (total 8) in the last year (2023). 4 of these courses have been delivered externally and the other 4 by internal staff. 1 course each year has been mandatory.

a) Anti – Racist Practice (Children’s Social Care)

Equality and Diversity and its Roots in Personalisation (Adult social care)

Anti-Oppressive Assessment and Practice (Adult Social Care)

LGBTQ+ Awareness (Adult Social Care)

Equality Diversity and Inclusion e-Learning (all staff mandatory)

2. 2019 Performance and Equalities Manager 0.6 FTE

2020 Performance and Equalities Manager 0.6 FTE

2021 Performance and Equalities Manager 0.6 FTE

2022 Strategic HR Business Partner EDI 0.8FTE

2023 Strategic HR Business Partner EDI 0.8FTE

3. See table below

4. See table below

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6. Spend for 2022 was £11,820, previous years’ data not currently available.

7. Pay grades for the following roles were/ are:

Performance and Equalities Manager G11 current max pay full time =£49,498

Strategic HR Business Partner EDI G12 current max pay full time=£56,769

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 *Figures for 31st March each year