Recruitment and retention: British Muslims

[Name Removed] made this Freedom of Information request to Derbyshire County Council as part of a batch sent to 10 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.

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Dear Derbyshire County Council,

1. How many British Muslim employees have you recruited? Please provide figures for every year since 2010.

2. What is the average length of service?

3. How many British Muslims have you employed in communications/media roles since 2010?

Yours faithfully,

[Name Removed]

CST Access 2 Info (Corporate Services and Transformation), Derbyshire County Council

Dear [Name Removed]

I refer to your request for information received on 05 March 2022.

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Yours sincerely,

Business Services Assistant

Access to Information Team

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG       

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Alex Stoenciu (Corporate Services and Transformation), Derbyshire County Council

Dear [Name Removed]

 

Thank you for your information request dated 05/03/2022 The request has
been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  The response
to your request is as follows:

 

1. How many British Muslim employees have you recruited? Please provide
figures for every year since 2010.

 

The below figures are based on religion field, and therefore reflect
employees who identified as Muslim. The information is split by
department.

 

Row Labels ASCH CS CST Place DCC Total
2010 3 1 4
2011 3 3
2012 1 2 1 4
2013 4 4 8
2014 2 1 3
2015 2 6 1 9
2016 2 2
2017 3 3 6
2018 1 5 1 7
2019 4 7 2 13
2020 1 4 1 6
2021 8 2 1 11
2022 2 3 1 6
Grand Total 31 41 8 2 82

 

 

 

2. What is the average length of service?

 

As with question 1, the figures are drawing from the religion field, and
is split by department.

 

Leavers Average in years
Adult Social Care & Health 3.16
Childrens Services 4.31
CorporateServ &Transformation 5.78
Place 6.20
Grand Total 4.24

 

 

 

3. How many British Muslims have you employed in communications/media
roles since 2010?

The answer to the question is 0.

 

 

I hope this now deals with your request for information. However should
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Access to Information Solicitor

Legal Services

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

 

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Kind regards,

Alex

 

Alex Stoenciu | Management Information Lead | HR – Organisation,
Development & Policy Division | Corporate Services and Transformation
| Derbyshire County Council | I am currently working away from the office,
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