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The Assistant Chief Fire Officer presented a report summarising progress against the Public Sector Equality Duty, prior to the publication of the Employment Monitoring Report 2018-19 on the Service's website.
It was highlighted to Members that the actual number of staff employed by the Service was 683.
[Cllr K Hey entered the meeting at 10.50am]
It was noted that in relation to protected characteristics under the Equalities Act 2010, the references to 'gender' should instead refer to 'sex'.
Members were pleased to note the reduction in disciplined cases and that the Service was working at reducing the gender gap.
There was concern regarding the decrease of female staff, however the Chief Fire Officer reassured Members that this was partly due to the redundancy of support staff and he had no concerns.
RESOLVED that the following areas be noted:
i) there have been minimal changes to the overall make up of the Service's workforce since the previous employment monitoring report for 2017-2018.
ii) the Employment Monitoring Report 2018-19 is approved for publication.