Shelia

 

Would you be willing to share what you issued in the audit with us?

 

Dave

 

 

 

 

>>> Sheila Ross <[log in to unmask]> 10/01/2012 10:08 >>>
Hiran,
We have issued an equality audit to all staff over the last few months covering the protected characteristics so just waiting to see what kind of return we have.

In terms of marriage and civil partnership we included an explanation as to why only these two ( e.g. people would ask why not widowed single etc)

For every question we included the prefer not to say category and highlighted this option to staff in the information  with the audit.

We used our own ethnicity categories based on the Scottish census- as HESA do not include categories such as Asian Scottish ( only Asian British in their list!).

I can send you on what we issued in the audit if you wish.
Regards

Sheila
Sheila Ross
HR Advisor (Employee Relations)
Human Resources
University of the West of Scotland
0141 848 3691
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-----Original Message-----
From: HE Administrators equal opportunities list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hiran Odedra
Sent: 10 January 2012 09:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Monitoring Marriage and Civil Partnership

Dear Colleagues

Please could you let me know if you are monitoring marriage and CP for staff.  I know that it is not a requirement for HESA but it is a protected characteristic and will be monitored as part of the upcoming REF, so it is something that we are starting to look at.

For those of you who do collect it, do you use the Census 2011 categories or your own?

Many thanks

Hiran Odedra
University Diversity Manager
Cranfield University


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