The latest Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) has been published today. It provides data on civil servants’ gender, ethnicity, disability, grade and where they work. Emily Andrews and Gavin Freeguard give an overview of what the numbers mean.
A great deal has been written about diversity in the Civil Service in recent weeks (not least the Institute’s own report on women and Whitehall since 1979). The latest figures, published today, show that the Civil Service – and Senior Civil Service – has become more diverse in terms of gender, ethnicity and disability since 2010. However, progress has stalled on increasing the representation of people with disabilities and from ethnic minority backgrounds. With the Spending Review and further staff reductions approaching, there are challenges ahead:
- the Civil Service is getting older
- the percentage of civil servants in more senior grades is increasing, and in junior grades decreasing.
A higher percentage of the Senior Civil Service is female than ever before, but this does not reflect the gender balance across the Civil Service as a whole.
- Topic
- Civil service
- Administration
- Cameron government
- Tracker
- Whitehall Monitor
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- Institute for Government