Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2015/16

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

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Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2015/16

Contents Highlights 2015/16

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Foreword 3

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Our Pledge and Commitment to Embedding Equality

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Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Equality of Opportunity

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Eliminating Unfair Discrimination

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Fostering Good Relations

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Equality Data

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Equality Objectives

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Highlights 2015/16 Here are just a few of the highlights showing the range of activity driving equality forwards, fostering good relations and celebrating diversity: Learners are aware of British values and how to use the internet and social media safely

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60 female students from four schools across the city attended a Young Women into Technology Taster Day.

Ofsted Inspection 2016

Achievement gaps linked to gender, learning difficulty, disability and ethnicity have continued to narrow.

Money raised for the College’s chosen charity - CHICKS

Money raised for Children with Cancer UK

Fairtrade Winner

97.8%

100%

Outstanding success rate of 97.8% for international students

International students 100% satisfaction rating

Bronze Award

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College announced as Fairtrade winner – two awards at the 2016 SW Fairtrade for the third year in a row – Gold Award – best Fairtrade University/College

College awarded Healthy College Quality Mark Bronze Award

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£1,894

ESOL students awarded first prize for their contribution to the Plymouth British Red Cross Refugee Week Art Project.

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£4,404

1st Prize

Foreword Successful funding bids linked to working with Young Carers and a Dementia Project .

A team of Chinese students won the annual Money Mogul competition, making £223 in a week from the initial £10.

Beacon Award

City College Plymouth awarded an Association of Colleges Beacon Award for the Promotion and Delivery of Successful Apprenticeships.

PREVENT training

Stretch and Challenge students from Automotive delivered PREVENT training to all other tutor groups within their academy area.

I am delighted to introduce the Annual Equality and Diversity Report for City College Plymouth.

Sharing this report is an opportunity to be proud of our successes and activities over the last year, as we continue our journey in ensuring equality and celebrating diversity. In an increasingly diverse world, we recognise that we have the responsibility of ensuring that our students can effectively contribute as part of a multicultural society. The report provides a summary of the broad range of activity that takes place to celebrate and promote equality, diversity and values for life and work in modern British society through our activities and events.

The report shows: • the extent to which the advancement of equality and diversity is evident within our College •

a strong culture of fairness, tolerance and respect

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there is no discrimination, harassment or victimisation within the College

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our commitment to providing inclusive educational provision that respects and responds to the diversity of our local community

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how we support our students

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the progress we have made towards equality objectives.

I hope this report provides an insight into how much we have already accomplished and how we plan to continue championing equality and diversity within our College community.

Phil Davies Principal & Chief Executive

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Our Pledge and Commitment to Embedding Equality •

Promoting a culture of respect and belief that all forms of prejudice and unfair discrimination are unacceptable.

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Expecting all members of our community to follow our vision and values for equality and diversity.

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Welcoming students and staff from all backgrounds.

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Valuing and celebrating the benefits that diversity and difference bring to the College and our society.

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Creating a safe environment for all students and staff.

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Raising awareness of equality and human rights, promoting diversity and combatting all forms of inequality, disadvantage, prejudice, unfair discrimination, harassment and mistreatment within our communities.

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Being clear with those who work and learn with us about the inherent values for life and work in modern British society.

Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Equality of Opportunity One of the key values of the College is to celebrate diversity and break down barriers to success. Activities, some of which are identified below, promote equality and diversity and continue to form an integral part of College life:

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accreditations - The College tests itself against national standards and has the following accreditations - Two Ticks/positive about disability, Investors in People, Investors in Careers; Matrix and the Association of Colleges Charter for Excellence in International Education and Training, Healthy Colleges Quality mark and ‘Fairtrade’ status.

The College has been a member of the DisabledGo website since 2009

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achievement gaps - These have continued to narrow for groups of learners with a declared disability and/or learning difficulty and for those learners from an ethnic minority heritage

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Apprenticeships - There is good promotion of equality and diversity within Apprenticeships alongside high completion rates for females in Engineering and Construction; in Business Administration and Hairdressing, 92% of male students completed a full apprenticeship framework City College Plymouth was honoured to be presented with an Association of Colleges Beacon Award for the Promotion and Delivery of Successful Apprenticeships

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Breakfast Club - This is the fifth year that the College has offered a free healthy breakfast to all students; in 2015/16 there was a further 25% increase in breakfast club uptake

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Chaplaincy team - The multi-faith chaplaincy team is well established and maintains quiet rooms at the Kings Road and Goschen centres and offers moral and spiritual support

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Christmas hampers - Each year hampers are distributed to students in need

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Community Church Café - Students following Skills Development courses run a weekly community café at a local church

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Dementia Care - City College Plymouth was delighted to have been chosen to lead a dementia care project launched in conjunction with Plymouth University to support and improve the provision of dementia care in China

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Diversity Week - In May, College students celebrated diversity through engaging in week-long activities; activities included puppetry workshops promoting the Prevent strategy, charity plant and bake sales in aid of the College’s Uganda Project and our chosen charity, Fairtrade promotion and culinary delights to celebrate ‘World Food Day’. Students were also given the opportunity to experience what it is like to live with a hearing or visual impairment with special sensory sessions from the College’s Learning Support team

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ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students at City College Plymouth were awarded first prize for their contribution to the Plymouth British Red Cross Refugee Week Art Project

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EU referendum/register to vote - Our Students’ Union President chaired a debate between students, political campaigners and the NUS LGBT Officer on the European referendum. Students also registered to vote ahead of the referendum

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Fairtrade - The College received a Gold Award in the ‘Best Fairtrade University/ College’ category at the South West Fairtrade Business Awards. The College's catering providers, Aramark, received a Gold Award in the ‘Best Fairtrade Advocate’ category 5

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fundraising: -- students supported a range of community fundraising events including the College’s chosen charity CHICKS

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mental health - Ahead of the launch of the College-wide mental health strategy, twenty staff received training in Mental Health First Aid

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November’s remembrance service - At the Remembrance Service students read poems and ‘planted’ student-crafted poppies

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Ofsted inspection - The 2016 Ofsted inspection findings reported: -- that leaders are careful to ensure that learners are safe and feel safe.

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for over 20 years, Public Services students have undertaken an annual charity fundraiser. This year, students raised an impressive £1,894 for Children with Cancer UK; students dressed up as superheroes and children’s fictional characters.

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Healthy College Quality Mark - The College received a bronze award in recognition of its health-related work for students and staff, including: healthy lifestyles, safeguarding, sustainability, mental health and well-being

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Holocaust Memorial - Two Business students and a member of staff participated in the Lessons from Auschwitz course run by the Holocaust Education Trust, which included a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland

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students raised funds for other good causes including Children in Need and a shoe appeal to support children in Gambia access education

Hospitality students - The development of global skills in our increasingly networked world is a key part of a wider education, preparing our students for the world of work, interacting with clients and colleagues of different cultures and countries. Hospitality students gained valuable experience of different cultures and diversity in the workplace through community projects and European exchange programmes

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International students - Our International students from China celebrated the ‘Year of the Monkey’ showcasing student talent and hosted a Chinese banquet. A team of Chinese students won the annual Money Mogul competition, making £223 in a week from the initial £10, making and sellinga range of Chinese artefacts and Christmas crafts

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Learning Support - The specialist team continued to support work with students with disabilities and learning difficulties across the College - success outcomes for students who received additional support was very good

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they promote learners’ understanding of British values well, along with developing their understanding of the risks of radicalisation and extremism.

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safeguarding - Two College Safeguarding Officers gained accreditation as speciallytrained DASH Assessors – Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour-Based Violence

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Uganda twinning - In September, the College celebrated its twinning with the Human Technical Development Training Centre in Lira, a town in the North of Uganda

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volunteering - The National Citizen Service and Prince’s Trust programmes includes a social project element; our learners organised and designed an array of projects that included working with the disabled community members to engage them in sport and working to protect the environment with beach clean projects

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Young Carers - The College was delighted to successfully bid for funding to undertake group support and respite activities for Young Carers.

Each term Hair and Beauty students deliver hair styling, manicures and back massages to carers of disabled adults through ‘Yourway’,a person centred organisation based in Plymouth supporting people of all ages with a learning disability in Devon and Cornwall

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Young Enterprise Award - Students from our Skills Development courses were awarded the Daily Express Plymouth Young Enterprise Award for their artwork, ceramics and enterprising activities.

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Eliminating unfair discrimination We aim to create a culture and ethos of mutual respect, understanding and tolerance within a friendly, harmonious and safe learning environment. The Equality and Diversity Committee and Corporation receive termly progress updates generated from monitoring systems that report on course and Collegewide equality performance. As part of its Public Sector Duty, the College publishes its Equality and Diversity Annual Report, which includes progress towards equality objectives. There is a Disability Forum with learner representatives, a well-established chaplaincy team and support groups for students who are parents-to-be/ young parents, students who are young carers and students who may be experiencing mental ill health. There is a lead Governor and the Director of Student Journey has been the College Leadership Team lead representative since 2012.

Improved performance for learners of most groups, including disadvantaged learners, has resulted in achievement gaps narrowing significantly across College.

Feeling safe Our 2016 Ofsted Inspection reported that safeguarding is effective; robust systems and operational procedures protect students and staff from bullying and harassment. Student feedback from 2015/16 surveys indicated that they felt safe (95%), respected (93%) and understood the need to work well with people of different types and backgrounds and to value everyone’s contribution (95%). There is a range of College support services including student welfare and counselling, a Safeguarding Team and Student Union support lines. College staff can access support via a personal 24 hour counselling helpline service. The strong and effective arrangements to protect learners from bullying and harassment are demonstrated by the low level of equality and diversity related formal complaints.

in modern British society. Students engaged in meaningful debates about radicalisation and participated in a competition to design posters which identify their own interpretation of key values that shape British society. As part of their induction training, course reps were briefed on the importance of the Prevent Duty. Students also delivered peer-to-peer information sessions to raise awareness of the Prevent Duty.

Fostering good relations The College’s commitment to encouraging good relations to develop understanding is illustrated by student involvement in the development of College community initiatives; as an example, students following Games Development courses created a game to help ESOL students navigate Plymouth.

95% of learners provided good/better feedback regarding their understanding of the need to work well with people of different types and backgrounds and value everyone’s contribution.

The development of global skills in our increasingly networked world is a key part of a wider education, preparing our students for the world of work, interacting with clients and colleagues of different cultures and countries.

There are good links between the College and external equality and diversity organisations. The College is a member of the Plymouth Prevent Group and the South West Prevent Further and Higher Education Peer Federation. The College works with a number of local organisations including the Plymouth Centre for Faith and Cultural Diversity, Students and Refugees Together, the Plymouth and District Race Equality Council and Plymouth Information, Advice and Support for SEND. Work is also undertaken with national bodies such as the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Association of Colleges, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, NIACE and specialist organisations, like Action for Blind People and Ambitious about Autism. College representatives attend external equality networks and training events to research good practice.

The College has been working proactively with the Prevent agenda since 2009 and has a comprehensive ‘Prevent Duty’ Risk Assessment Matrix containing regular progress updates.

Students attended information sessions about Prevent and key values linked to life and work 8

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International developments

Fairtrade

The presence in the College of international students from all around the world is a positive expression of the College’s commitment to diversity and to the development of a global culture within the College. In 2015/16, the College continued to develop its international partnership and links.

The Fairtrade Foundation focuses on alleviating poverty in the developing countries; since 2008, the College has maintained Fairtrade status.

In 2015, the College received a Gold Award in the Best Fairtrade University/ College category at the South West Fairtrade Business Awards.

City College Plymouth was the only college in the region to be recognised in this category.

The College's catering providers, Aramark, also received a Gold Award in the Best Fairtrade Advocate category.

We celebrated the twinning of the College with the Human Technical Development Training Centre in Lira, a town in the North of Uganda.

The Principal of the Training Centre visited City College as part of a week-long visit, funded by the British Council. The twinning ceremony marked the continued friendship between the two establishments, which began in 2009.

The College hosted a visit from Ambassador Matthew W. Barzun, the Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as part of the run up to the Mayflower 400 celebrations.

Ambassador Barzun spoke to an invited audience of College and sixth-form students from across the City, asking them to give their views on America’s role on the world stage and on domestic issues like healthcare, education and gun control.

A new project has been launched utilising Plymouth’s expertise in dementia care, research and training to improve the provision of dementia care in China. The project, led by City College Plymouth with support from partner Plymouth University, was one of only two successful bids by colleges to the China Innovation Fund, which is administered by the British Council in China. The College is now working with its Chinese partner, Huzhou University, to develop the dementiatraining hub.

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The College’s Fairtrade Focus Group works in partnership with Aramark to ensure that there are Fairtrade products in all eateries and Fairtrade refreshments are supplied for Hospitality requests. The College’s Hospitality department uses Fairtrade ingredients in teaching and learning and always supports the Fairtrade Fortnight campaign by serving Fairtrade focussed menus in its PL1 restaurant and Bistro.

Fairtrade is embedded into curriculum and community work and promoted through workshops, lessons and events like the Freshers’ Fair and Student Conference.

Equality Monitoring - Student Data The impact of Equality and Diversity is monitored and reviewed through the College’s quality systems using a range of performance indicators. The table below shows the success rate of students by age, gender, ethnicity, declared learning difficulty or disability and outcomes for those students who received additional learning support. Improved performance for learners of most groups, including disadvantaged learners, has resulted in achievement gaps narrowing significantly across College.

Characteristic

Status

Success Overall

Gap 15/16 Gap 14/15

Additional Learning Support

Not Receiving Support

82.3%

+5.3%

-0.2%

Additional Learning Support

Receiving Support

87.6%

Age

16-18

82.3%

-2.1%

-3%

Age

19+

84.4%

Disability

Declared Disability 82.9%

-0.3%

-2.2%

Disability

No Disability

83.2%

Learning Difficulty

Declared Learning Difficulty

81.9%

-1.6%

+1.8%

Disability

No Learning Difficulty

83.5%

Ethnicity

Ethnic Minority

85.4%

+2.7%

+4.5%

Ethnicity

White British

82.7%

Gender

Male

84%

+1.7%

+0.7%

Gender

Female

82.3%

Young Male

Young Male

83.3%

+3.9%

+1.0%

Young Female

Young Female

79.4%

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Race

Transgender (gender identity)

The College welcomes students and staff from all backgrounds and there are good outcomes for students from an ethnic minority. The College continues to make strong efforts to recruit a diverse workforce; the workforce ethnicity profile at the College has increased from 4.7% in 2009/10 to 7% in 2015/16.

The College is committed to tackling discrimination and this includes discrimination on the ground of gender identity. The College provides appropriate support for transgender students or staff as appropriate to the needs of the individual. Gender identity equality is included in mandatory staff training and specialist training from the Intercom trust is provided to ensure that staff have awareness of transgender issues.

Pregnancy and Maternity Support for pregnant learners and parentsto-be is effective; project work undertaken to support these young students received national recognition as a runner-up in the Association of Colleges Beacon Awards and has been used as a national exemplar of good practice.

The College supports parents through the provision of excellent nurseries. The nurseries enable both students and staff to study and/or work knowing their children are well cared for and stimulated. The College’s nursery provision was visited by Ofsted in 2016; their findings reported that the nursery provision was good with an outstanding judgement for children’s’ personal development, behaviour and welfare.

Religion or belief The College introduced the collection of data on religion and belief for students in 2014/15. 48% of staff chose not to comment on their religion or beliefs. Amongst the staff who responded, Christianity was identified with by 34% and 3% identified with another religion or belief.

Sexual orientation The Equality and Diversity Policy and the Equality and Diversity Action Plan include sexual orientation equality statements, actions and objectives. Sexual orientation equality is included in mandatory staff training and there are resources to provide additional support. Studentfacing LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning) work is supported by the College Students’ Union who have developed links with the group at Plymouth University.

The College introduced the collection of data on sexual orientation for students in 2014/15 after consultation. Thirty three per cent of staff chose not to comment on their sexual orientation.

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Equality Monitoring – Workforce Data

Equality Objectives

The College employs over 600 people, 5% of whom are in management roles.

The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) comprises the Principal, Deputy Principal and two Vice Principals. There are five Faculties, each divided into Programme Areas, and eleven Service Areas. The table below shows the College workforce profile:

Our promotion of equality and diversity is focused through Equality Objectives and an associated Equality and Diversity Action Plan. This was introduced in 2011/12 to replace the Single Equality Scheme which had run from 2008/9 to 2010/11. The Equality Objectives help the College to maintain an ethos of improvement through identifying priority equality issues:

Workforce Profile Characteristic

Measure

Age

Under 45

49%

Over 45

51%

Disability

Declared

6%

Ethnicity

Minority ethnic heritage

7%

Gender

Male

41%

Female

59%

Gender Pay Gap

Religion or belief

Sexual Orientation

Governor Profile

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promoting equality for our students

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promoting equality for our workforce

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promoting equality in our working practices

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meeting the requirements of the equality legislation to cover age, disability, gender, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion and sexual orientation.

The progress made towards our 2015/16 Equality Objectives identified below will be used as 2016/18 baseline data

Male Female

-24.6%

Christian

34%

Other belief

3%

Non belief

15%

Not provided

48%

Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual

2.0%

Heterosexual

65%

Not provided

33%

Male

66%

Female

33%

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Demonstrate the integration of respect, equality, diversity, and resilient critical thinking into teaching and learning.

Continue to equip staff with skills and confidence to increase the promotion and celebration of equality and diversity, challenge discrimination and prepare students for life and work in modern British society.

Promoting equality in our working practices

Ensure that students experience respect and fair treatment.

Promoting equality for our workforce Improve the diversity of our staff and governing body to reflect the communities we serve.

Implementation of College-wide mental health strategy.

Promoting equality for our students High success rates for all students through ensuring that students from disadvantaged groups are fully supported to achieve successful outcomes and progression.

0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap

Students who receive ALS Students who have a declaration of mental ill health Students who are Children Looked After Ethnicity gap Gender gap Age gap Student feedback: respect from staff feeling safe

100% staff up to date with E & D and Prevent training Student feedback ratings 85%+ 90% observations confirm good practice

Staff training statistics

Student satisfaction surveys Internal and external scrutiny confirms excellence in this area

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Workforce Disability profile 10% Ethnicity profile 7%

Workforce and Governor profile

100% good/better feedback

0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 100% good/better feedback

0% achievement gap

ASPIRATIONAL TARGET

100% staff trained in Prevent Effective promotion E & D including the inherently British values of the College

100% staff trained Student feedback ratings 85%+

Disability profile 10% Ethnicity profile 7%

100% good/better response 100% good/better response 100% good/better response

0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap 0% achievement gap

ASPIRATIONAL TARGET

Students who have an EHC Plan

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

City College Plymouth Equality Objectives 2016/18 EQUALITY OBJECTIVE

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Staff training statistics Student satisfaction Students feel safe and external scrutiny confirms excellence in this area

Staff training statistics Student satisfaction

Workforce profile

Declared Disability Declared Learning difficulty Ethnicity gap Gender gap Age gap Student Feedback: Respect from staff Feeling safe Work well with all

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2015/16

Demonstrate the integration of diversity, embraces British Values, safeguarding and respect for everyone into each aspect of our work and learning

Promoting equality for our workforce Improve the diversity of our staff and governing body to reflect the communities we serve across all the equality areas Promoting equality in our working practices Continue to provide appropriate training, support and guidance to staff and students

Students experience respect and fair treatment

Promoting equality for our students High success rates for all students; ensure students from disadvantaged groups are fully supported throughout their programmes and achieve successful outcomes and progression

EQUALITY OBJECTIVE

City College Plymouth Equality Objectives 2015/16

Equality and Diversity Annual Report 2015/16

Overall student satisfaction good/better Autumn term 91% Summer term 88% Ofsted Inspection judgement

100% staff E & D trained 95% staff Prevent trained

Workforce Disability Profile 6% Ethnicity Profile 7%

95%

88% achievement 2.7% 1.7% -2.1% 93%

76.6% achievement

5.3%

2015/16 Baseline

100% staff trained Overall student satisfaction good/better Autumn term 91% Summer term 88% 95% staff have attended Prevent training

Disability Profile 6% Ethnicity profile 7%

93% 95% 95%

-0.3% -1.6% 2.7% 1.7% -2.1%

2015/16 Progress