You list three cross-cutting issues saying "Tracy’s Mayoral pledge of putting women and girls at the heart of this Police and Crime Plan". One of the Mayoral pledges is "To put keeping women and girls safe at the heart of her policing plan." 2/16
The "Special areas of focus" section of your survey asks, "What would you like to see the Mayor, West Yorkshire Police, and partner organisations do to help keep women and girls safe in West Yorkshire?" 3/16
In the 'Information about you' section, you ask, "Do you identify as" with options:
Female
Male
Trans-gender [sic]
Non-binary
Prefer to self-describe 4/16
Female and male are the two sexes and are not something that can be chosen as an identity and including them as options on a question about identity can only confuse, possibly resulting in misleading and erroneous information being collected. 5/16
You also don't say why you are asking this question on 'identity' or what you mean by 'Trans-gender' and 'Non-binary'. 6/16
You then ask, "Do you live in the gender you were assigned at birth?". Whatever you mean by 'gender', it doesn't seem likely that it is 'assigned at birth'. It's also not clear what you mean by living in a gender or why you are asking this. 7/16
Given your pledge of "putting women and girls at the heart of this Police and Crime Plan", it's disappointing you don't ask for the sex of participants. 8/16
I note you have a public sector equality duty to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Act as well as the other duties of s.149 of the Act.
'Gender' and similar terms rely on demeaning, regressive stereotypical notions of societal roles for the two sexes, concepts with which I'm sure you would not wish to be associated and concepts that, if relied upon, might compromise your PSED. 12/16
There is a protected characteristic of 'gender reassignment', but it is defined in the Act in terms different to those you use here and you don't ask about this protected characteristic either.
It is therefore difficult to understand how you can assess the views of women and girls if you don't know which responses are from those who are female. 14/16
Will you put women and girls at the heart of this Police and Crime Plan as you promised by updating this form and ensuring you know which responses are from women and girls? 15/16
Can you say how you will deal with responses already received when you don't know which were from women and girls and which were not?
@CPSUK Hi @CPSUK @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch
In the 'Diversity monitoring' section of your application for this role, you ask the mandatory question: "Your gender", with options:
Man
Woman
Prefer to self-describe
Prefer not to disclose 1/6
@CPSUK @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch You will be well aware that 'Gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.
@CPSUK @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch You will also be aware that Woman and Man are the terms in the Act relating to the protected characteristic of sex, so using them for some other question can only be confusing and could lead to gathering inconsistent and contradictory data. 3/6
@Baroness_Nichol Hi @ofcom @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch
The 'Diversity Monitoring' section of your job application says you are "committed to equality of opportunity regardless of..." followed by a list of characteristics.
cc @Baroness_Nicholson 1/31
@Baroness_Nichol @Ofcom @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch As it is a part of your recruitment process, I assume its purpose is to help you ensure that you are recruiting without unlawfully discriminating under the Equality Act 2010, which is not the same as 'diversity monitoring' or 'inclusion':
@AFNCCF Hi @AFNCCF @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch
Your 'Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form' says you don't discriminate directly or indirectly on the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. 1/23
@AFNCCF @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch It's good to see you correctly list sex as one of those protected characteristics. 2/23
@AFNCCF @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch As it is a part of your recruitment process, I assume the purpose of the form is to help you ensure that you are recruiting without unlawfully discriminating under the Equality Act 2010, which is not the same as 'diversity monitoring' or 'inclusion':
@rcgp Hi @rcgp @KamilaRCGP @mike_h0lmes @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch
Your statement talks about your "commitment to inclusion" and your duties under the Equality Act to not discriminate. 1/24
@rcgp @KamilaRCGP @Mike_H0lmes @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch The 'Equal Opportunities' section of your job application says you are "committed to the fair treatment of our staff, potential staff" regardless of a number of listed characteristics similar to - but not identical to - the protected characteristics under the Act. 2/24
@rcgp @KamilaRCGP @Mike_H0lmes @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch As it is a part of your recruitment process, I assume its purpose is to help you ensure that you are recruiting without unlawfully discriminating under the Equality Act 2010, which is not the same as 'diversity monitoring' or 'inclusion':
The 'DIVERSITY AND EVALUATION FORM' for this job says it will "enable us to monitor our commitment to equality and diversity." 1/26
@Kaleidoscope_T @APPGLGBT @angelaeagle @ElliotColburn @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch As it is a part of your recruitment process, I assume its purpose is to help you ensure that you are recruiting without unlawfully discriminating under the Equality Act 2010, which is not the same as 'diversity monitoring' or 'inclusion':
@portsmouthnews Hi @BruneParkSchool @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch @GEOgovuk
The 'Equal Opportunities' section of your job application says you use the data to "monitor the effectiveness of our equality and diversity practices".
cc @keogh1992x 1/25
@portsmouthnews @BruneParkSchool @EHRC @EHRCChair @KishwerFalkner @KemiBadenoch @keogh1992x As it is a part of your recruitment process, I assume its purpose is to help you ensure that you are recruiting without unlawfully discriminating under the Equality Act 2010, which is not the same as 'diversity monitoring' or 'inclusion':