Diversity and Inclusion Employment Monitoring Report 2025

Caring responsibilities

The definition of unpaid caring responsibilities is someone who gives help or support to anyone who has long-term physical or mental ill-health conditions, illness or problems related to old age. It does not include any activities as part of paid employment and the help can be within or outside of the carer's household (ONS, 2021).

20.4% (up from 18.0% in 2023) of the workforce are carers (compared to 8.6% of the Wiltshire population in the 2021 census). 79.6% said they had no unpaid caring responsibilities (86.7% in the census). 51.0% of staff have disclosed this information. Last year the figure was 78.4% (see note on changes to EDI data sources in Methodology section).

Headcount by caring responsibility
Responsibility	%
Carer	20.4%
Not a carer	79.6%

Recruitment

The proportion of Carers appointed has fallen from 10.0% last year to 6.2%. This information is unstated for 15.9% of applicants and 27.2% of appointees.

Total recruitment
Responsibility	% of total applied	% of total shortlisted	% of total appointed
Carer	5.5%	5.4%	6.2%
Not a carer	94.5%	94.6%	93.8%

Internal recruitment
Responsibility	% of total applied	% of total shortlisted	% of total appointed
Carer	13.9%	12.3%	11.9%
Not a carer	86.1%	87.7%	88.1%

Leavers

Carers accounted for 16.0% of leavers, lower than the headcount figure of 20.4%. The resignations percent for Carers was lower (48.7%) compared to all staff (62.9%).