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1. Introduction

This is Ofcom’s second employment monitoring report under the Race Equality Scheme, as required by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. It covers the period from 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006.

The report contains data relating to all colleagues employed by Ofcom and sets out key messages emanating from an analysis of the findings, issues arising and where there are shortfalls, how it is intended to address them.

2. Background and context

Ofcom was formed as a result of the Communications Act 2003 and inherited the duties of its legacy regulators – the Radiocommunications Agency, Oftel, the Independent Television Commission, the Radio Authority and the Broadcasting Standards Commission. It formally took up its powers on 29 December 2003.

Ofcom inherited colleagues from the five legacy regulators but did not inherit details of their ethnic origin. An exercise to collect colleagues’ ethnicity details started in August 2004. Take up was at first slow but increased to 75% by the end of March 2005 and 85% by the end of March 2006.

3. The data

The report includes data on the following:

• Colleagues currently working for Ofcom
• Colleagues who were promoted
• Colleagues who received training and development
• Outcomes from performance reviews
• Colleagues who are involved in grievance procedures
• Colleagues who are the subject of disciplinary action
• Recruitment
• Colleagues who ended their service with Ofcom

It should be noted that the data on ‘colleagues currently working for Ofcom’ was necessarily a snapshot taken on a given day; whereas data on ‘leavers’ and ‘training and development’ covered an extended period (over which the number of colleagues in post fluctuated as colleagues left and joined the office.)

The full document showing key findings is available below:

• Race Equality Scheme – Employment Monitoring [pdf]
  Full print version

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