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FOI Request 28022025-1 – Staff, training, and procurement: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity
Request
1) The number of roles across all components of your operations, directorates and management structures, expressed in numbers of full-time employees (FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. This information should encompass all roles based in central offices, as well as any based elsewhere.
Roles meeting this description could include (amongst other guises) “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer” (EDI) or “Diversity and Inclusion Project Managers”. Please break down, if possible, the number of roles per component part of your operations.
For all roles meeting this description, please also provide, in order of preference, either a) the salary of these roles, b) the pay band of these roles, or c) the combined total salary of these roles. Please provide the information that is most in accordance with your data processing practices.
Please also advise if there are any plans to hire further staff in these areas within the next 18 months, and the roles/pay bands that they are likely to occupy.
2) With the same criteria as above, please provide the number of internal training courses attended by staff which pertain to the issues encompassed by equality, diversity or inclusivity. Please include the name of the courses, the number of attendees, and the duration of the course.
3) Please, if possible, provide details of any internal EDI practices and networks, including the number of individuals who are members of such networks.
4) Please provide details of any external contractors brought in by the organisation to conduct training, advice, or guidance on issues relating to EDI. Where applicable this should include costs and associated manhours.
5) Please provide details of how equality, diversity and inclusivity is included in your procurement practices, the relative weight afforded to these considerations, and the current value of contracts in which EDI considerations was a part of the procurement process.
Response
1) The number of roles across all components of your operations, directorates and management structures, expressed in numbers of full-time employees (FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. This information should encompass all roles based in central offices, as well as any based elsewhere
Roles meeting this description could include (amongst other guises) “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer” (EDI) or “Diversity and Inclusion Project Managers”. Please break down, if possible, the number of roles per component part of your operations.
For all roles meeting this description, please also provide, in order of preference, either a) the salary of these roles, b) the pay band of these roles, or c) the combined total salary of these roles. Please provide the information that is most in accordance with your data processing practices.
Please also advise if there are any plans to hire further staff in these areas within the next 18 months, and the roles/pay bands that they are likely to occupy.
The Office of the Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (OPFCC) does not employ any members of staff that are mainly or exclusively focussed on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity nor are any plans to introduce any such roles. The OPFCC, Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service share an Enabling Services team who are employed under the Chief Constable that deal with such activity across policing and fire.
Information regarding the operation of the Shared Services team is the responsibility of Northamptonshire Police, therefore the OPFCC does not hold any of the information you have requested. Northamptonshire Police’s Information Unit may hold some of the information you are seeking. If you have not already done so, then you may wish to write to their Freedom of Information and Data Protection Team, Information Unit, Force Headquarters, Wootton Hall, Northampton, NN4 0JQ
freedomofinformation@northants.pnn.police.uk
2) With the same criteria as above, please provide the number of internal training courses attended by staff which pertain to the issues encompassed by equality, diversity or inclusivity. Please include the name of the courses, the number of attendees, and the duration of the course.
Please see the response to question one.
3) Please, if possible, provide details of any internal EDI practices and networks, including the number of individuals who are members of such networks.
The OPFCC does not have any internal EDI networks. Details of our equalities policy can be found on our website here
4) Please provide details of any external contractors brought in by the organisation to conduct training, advice, or guidance on issues relating to EDI. Where applicable this should include costs and associated manhours.
2024-2025
- Autism From the Inside Out, 1 x days training for the OPFCC Early Intervention Team £1000 En-Fold
- Spiritual and Ritual Abuse Awareness for the OPFCC Early Intervention Team £575 plus some continuing professional development – £122 Prism Training
- LGBTQ Language with Q Space – 2 hour session for the OPFCC Early Intervention Team £175
- Mental Health continuing professional development for the OPFCC Early Intervention Team £65.71. Cheryl Vincent paid by card, so she should be able to confirm the contractor
2023-2024
- Living with Alzheimer’s and Dementia for the OPFCC Victims and Witness Service Voice £293.75 The Alzheimer’s Society
- Training from Delivering with Difference for the OPFCC Customer Services Team £400 Richard Andrews
- Supporting Sexual Abuse Survivors, Trauma Informed Care and Neurodiversity in Children for Voice with Healthcare Conferences £15
- In December 2023, staff from the OPFCC attended a workshop Men & Masculinities (Male Allyship Network Program) delivered by ‘Beyond Equality’ This workshop was hosted by Enabling Services and was done in conjunction with staff from Northamptonshire Police and Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue. Northamptonshire Police’s Information Unit may hold the information you are seeking.
2022-2023
- No information held
5) Please provide details of how equality, diversity and inclusivity is included in your procurement practices, the relative weight afforded to these considerations, and the current value of contracts in which EDI considerations was a part of the procurement process.
The OPFCC Joint Code of Corporate Governance sets out how the office undertakes the procurement of goods and services. A copy of can be downloaded here. A revised code will be published shortly in line with the Procurement Act 2023.
