Department for Education: Discrimination
(asked on 20th September 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many allegations of discriminatory behaviour in the workplace were made in respect of each of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act in (a) the Department for Education, (b) Ofqual and (c) Ofsted in each of the last five years.
The number of allegations made in respect of each of the protected characteristics in the Equality Act 2010 in the Department are listed in the following table:
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022* | Total |
Disability | >5 | >5 | >5 | >5 | >5 | 6 | 16 |
Race | 0 | >5 | >5 | 8 | >5 | 0 | 16 |
Age | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | >5 | 0 | 9 |
Sex | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | >5 | >5 | 3 |
Gender | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | >5 | 0 | >5 |
religion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | >5 | 0 | >5 |
Total | >5 | >5 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 46 |
*until 2 July 2022 |
Details where the total number of allegations, complainants, and outcomes are five or fewer are withheld under section 40(2) of the Equality Act that relates to Personal Information. This is because releasing the numbers may potentially lead to the identification of individual(s).
No records are held centrally for Ofqual and Ofsted.