Waltham Forest Council receive top ranking for high earning minority staff
Waltham Forest is proud to announce that we have achieved second ranking in the Top English League of highly performing London Councils for the proportion of highest paid council officers who come from ethnic minorities.
We came second to Hackney who has topped the league, in a ranking of 33 London boroughs.
Since 2005 there has been a clear upward trend in the proportion of minority ethnic community staff, employed in all services except education, in the top 5 per cent of earners with figures rising progressively from 14.19 per cent in 2004/05 to 24.1 per cent in 2007/08.
Waltham Forest has consistently performed higher than the London median for minority ethnic community employees in top 5 per cent of earners. In 2006/07 the London median was 12.8 per cent and Waltham Forest achieved 22.5 per cent.
The Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and diversity is one of our core values. We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce representative of its community that is reflected across most pay bands.
We want to ensure that equality and diversity is is integral to both, service delivery and employment of our staff and remains fully embedded in our organisational practices.
For more information, please refer to the Waltham Forest Equal Opportunity Policy and Annual Equalities in Employment Reports (AEER) 2005/2006 and 2007/08.
