Skills & Employability Training
The country continue to experience shortfall in workforce across multiple sectors. But despite the introduction of Race Equality legislation over the decades, racism and discrimination continues to affect society and its major institutions. It finds its way into business boards, recruitment processes (whether through overt or unconscious bias) and employment and work place practices. This specifically means minority communities will need to constantly update their skills to be able to fit into the competitive space within the workforce.
Applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds have to send 60% more applications to get a positive response from an employer than their counterparts, according to a new study published by CSI and conducted by CSI’s Valentina Di Stasio and Anthony Heath, with the collaboration of international colleagues at the GEMM project found that job seekers from minority ethnic groups had to send an average of 60% more applications to receive the same level of interest as those from majority groups.
According to the Sunderland City Council report titled ‘Corporate Workforce Equality & Diversity Annual Report 2019, as of 31 March 2019, Sunderland City Council had a total workforce of 4,475 of whom 2793 (62.41%) are employed centrally, and 1682 (37.59%) are employed directly by maintained schools, including 23 who have jobs across both areas (schools and ‘non schools’). During the period, only 2.36% are of Black or Black British ethnicity.
With this in mind, we partnered with the North East Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust to provide Skills and Employability training to our members and a total of 65 members benefited.
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