The Equality Act 2010 defines a person as having a disability if he/she has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on his/her ability to carry out normal day to day activities.

St Basils is committed to a policy of ensuring equality of opportunity in employment for all, and to taking action to avoid discrimination.  As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.

St Basils are Equal Opportunities employers and as part of our equal opportunities policy we are committed to implementing policies which do not discriminate on the grounds of ethnicity, gender, pregnancy and maternity, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion.

For this reason our recruitment and selection procedures aim to avoid any unfair discrimination on these grounds during the consideration of applications for employment. To help us monitor this policy and the effectiveness of our recruitment practices we require all applicants to complete an equal opportunities policy monitoring form as part of the application process.

As with all the other information on the application form it will be treated as confidential and the short-listing and recruiting panel will not see this part of the form.

We are proud of our diversity at St Basils and particularly that the diversity of our staff team reflects the communities that we serve in Birmingham and beyond. We feel it is important that our Board of Directors does the same in order to bring a variety of skills and perspectives to the table. As a young people’s charity it is particularly important that as well as gender and ethnic background being brought into consideration, a range of ages is also reflected in the make-up of the board in order to ensure we continue to meet the diverse needs of young people.

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All UK employers over a certain size are required to report on their gender pay gap. Our report can be downloaded by clicking on the red button below. In it you’ll find a snapshot of the gender pay balance within St Basils, accompanied by notes to explain what the results mean.

One of St Basils’ strategic priorities is ‘Challenging discrimination and promoting diversity and cohesion through employment, service delivery and community engagement’ – central to which is our ongoing commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and to addressing workplace barriers to equality.

We welcome the requirement to report on this data and will use the information to inform our continuing commitment to ensure that everyone – regardless of race, ethnicity or gender – has an equal opportunity to thrive.

Gender Pay Gap Report March 2020