Diversity and Inclusion Employment Monitoring Report 2025

This report sets out data based on the key areas of the employee lifecycle which the council currently monitors. These are:

• Headcount: The report provides percentages of permanent and temporary staff by protected characteristics. The percentages throughout the report are based only on staff responses that provide the characteristic (see Data Gaps above). The 'Unstated' percentages are provided separately. Headcount figures are now shown as individual people rather than occupied positions, which makes a small difference where staff hold multiple positions, so data from previous years has been recalculated for comparison purposes.
• Recruitment: We monitor the protected characteristics of all applicants who apply for roles through our system and this report looks at the overall applications received, the number of shortlisted applicants and successful/appointed applicants.
• Internal appointments and promotions: We monitor applications for internal appointments and promotions. The information presented in this report relates to jobs advertised internally and includes all positions regardless of whether that job represents a promotion or a sideways move within the council.
• Leaver information: The report provides a breakdown of permanent and temporary staff leavers by protected characteristics, and this is compared to the staff headcount figures. The report also includes commentary about the main reason for leaving employment, where significant.
• Disciplinary and grievance:The report includes the proportion of staff that have raised a grievance or are the subject of a disciplinary procedure. The figures reflect all cases initiated, including those that resulted in informal or no action. Figures tend to vary from year to year and represent small numbers.
• Remuneration:The data contained in the report includes a breakdown of our pay grades against some of the protected characteristics to show the distribution of staff across the different pay grades. The council has also produced figures for the ethnicity pay gap and the disability pay gap in the ethnicity and disability sections. Our gender pay gap figures are covered in another report which can be found on our Gender pay gap page.
• Training:The report includes attendance figures for the Wiltshire Leader programme which is a programme aimed at developing future leaders.