Race for Opportunity Ethnic Minorities in the South West

Regional FactsheetEthnic Minorities in the UK - South West

Celebrating 15 years of Action on Race 1995-2010

1995 - 2010

About Race for Opportunity (RfO)RfO is committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. It is the only race diversity campaign that has access to and influence over the leaders of the UK’s best known organisations.

The campaign aims to:

• make clear the economic and business argument for organisations investing in race diversity;

• highlight the responsibility and role of leaders in delivering race diversity;

• communicate the need to speed up progress on the introduction of policies that further better representation of ethnic minorities;

• raise awareness of the barriers preventing the BAME community from making progress in the workplace.

“There is an overwhelming opportunity for employers who embrace race diversity and inclusion to harness the diverse talent that exists in the UK today. The Race for Opportunity campaign in collaboration with its network members will continue to set the stage for race equality and progression in the UK and this challenge is one that I am very pleased to be part of.”

Ruby McGregor-Smith CEO, MITIE Group PLC and Chair, Race for Opportunity.

This factsheet is about ethnic minority people in the South West region and contains information that is available in the public domain.

Inside

[ 1 ] Landscape Data ........................................................................................................... 04

1.1 The South West picture .............................................................................................. 04

1.2 An overall snapshot of the UK ................................................................................. 04

[ 2 ] Where do ethnic minority people live in the South West? ........................... 05

[ 3 ] Focus on Bristol ........................................................................................................... 06

[ 4 ] Education ........................................................................................................................07

4.1 Where do ethnic minority students study in the South West? ........................07

[ 5 ] Religion ........................................................................................................................... 08

5.1 A snapshot of the South West .................................................................................. 08

5.2 The UK overall picture ................................................................................................ 08

[ 6 ] Employment .................................................................................................................. 09

6.1 Ethnic minority employment rate in the South West ........................................ 09

6.2 Employment Rate - UK ................................................................................................ 09

[ 7 ] Simple steps to get started on race equality .................................................... 10

Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................11

Race for Opportunity Members ..............................................................12

Regional Factsheet • South West

04 I Race for Opportunity (RfO) | Regional Factsheet

[ 1 ] Landscape Data

Source: NOMIS – number and proportion of ethnic minority population in NUTS1 regions in the UK - 2008

White British

White Irish

White Others

White/Caribbean

White/African

White/Asian

Other Mixed

Indian

Pakistani

Bangladeshi

Other Asian

Caribbean

African

Other Black

Chinese

Others

Total

4,701,602

32,484

81,230

13,343

3,918

11,198

8,913

16,394

6,729

4,814

4,861

12,405

6,171

2,345

12,722

9,304

4,928,433

95.4%

0.7%

1.6%

0.3%

0.1%

0.2%

0.2%

0.3%

0.1%

0.1%

0.1%

0.3%

0.1%

0.0%

0.3%

0.2%

100%

Ethnic Minority Group Number of People Percentage of South Westpopulation

South West Population By Ethnic Group


Source: NOMIS – number and proportion of ethnic minority population in NUTS1 regions in the UK - 2008

East of England

East Midlands

London

North East

North West

Northern IrelandScotland

South East

South West

Wales

West Midlands

Yorkshire and the Humber

435,400

371,100

2,735,800

100,900

543,500

29,800

145,700

583,700

163,400

91,500

792,500

471,900

7.7%

8.5%

36.2%

4.0%

8.0%

1.7%

2.9%

7.1%

3.2%

3.1%

14.8%

9.2%

6.7%

5.7%

42.3%

1.6%

8.4%

0.5%

2.3%

9.0%

2.5%

1.4%

12.3%

7.3%

Region Ethnic MinorityPopulation

Representation ofEthnic Minorities

Proportion of UKEthnic Minority

Population

Number, Representation and Proportion of Ethnic Minority Populationin NUTS1 Regions in the UK - 2008

United Kingdom 6,465,100 10.7% 100.0

1.1 The South West Picture

1.2 An overall snapshot of the UKLondon has the largest ethnic minority population in the UK. Of the 6.4 million ethnic minorities in the UK nearly half, 42.3%, live in London.

• The non-white ethnic minority population is low in the South West with none of the 37 local authorities having a larger ethnic minority than England as a whole (9.1%, SW 2.4%)

in 2001.

Source: www.gos.gov.uk/497666/

docs/220636/309014/swkeyfacts.doc

• Only Bristol (8.2%) and Gloucester (7.5%) has more than a twentieth of their population with a non-white ethnicity.

Source: www.gos.gov.uk/497666/

docs/220636/309014/swkeyfacts.doc

• In fact, experimental statistics revealed that 92 per cent of the region's population classed themselves as White British in 2007, the second highest of all English regions after the North East. This figure rose to 95.4 per cent in 2008.

Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.

asp?id+2237


Source: 2001 Census, NOMIS

More than 10% of the UK workforce is from an ethnic minority background and over 20% of the emerging workforce (children in primary and secondary school education), are from an ethnic minority background. In addition to this, 16% of UK-domiciled students at university in the UK are from an ethnic minority background. Britain’s current and future talent pool is racially diverse and progressive employers understand that it makes good business sense to utilise and grow this pool of talent.

Split of Ethnic Minority Population by Districts

Cheltenham - 3.3%

Rest of South WestRegion - 26.4%

City of Bristol - 27.5%

Swindon - 7.6%

Gloucester - 7.3%

Wiltshire - 6.2%

South Gloucestershire - 5.1%

Bournemouth - 4.8%

Cornwall - 4.3%

Bath & North East Somerset - 4.1%

Plymouth - 3.5%

[ 2 ] Where do ethnic minority people live in the South West?

Of the 37 districts in the South West, Bristol has the largest concentration of ethnic minority people. 28% of the total ethnic minority population in the South West reside in this city.



[ 3 ] Focus on Bristol

2007 estimates for Bristol’s ethnic minority residents stood at 11.9%. Source: ONS 2007 Experimental Statistics Crown Copyright 2009.

Mixed

Indian

Pakistani

21%

28%

60%

Ethnic Minority groupPercentage living

in Bristol

Proportion of Ethnic Minority Population in Bristol

Bangladeshi

Other Asian

Caribbean

African

Other Black

Chinese

Others

26%

20%

45%

37%

40%

17%

14%

• More than 6,600 primary and secondary pupils in the city of Bristol i.e., one in seven school children do not speak English as a first language. The majority of them, more than 4,400, are in primary schools.

Source: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Calls-Bristol-school-teaching-

English-minorities/article-1229909-detail/article.html

• In 2008, nearly a quarter of children in nursery and reception classes in Bristol did not have English as their first language.

Source: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Calls-Bristol-school-teaching-

English-minorities/article-1229909-detail/article.html



[ 4 ] Education

1 in 4 of pupils in primary school education in England are from an ethnic minority background. Source: DCSF release May 2009, ‘number of pupils in state maintained schools’

1 in 5 of pupils in secondary school education in England is from an ethnic minority background. Source: DCSF release May 2009, ‘number of pupils in state maintained schools’

Almost 1 in 6 (16%) of UK-domiciled students studying at UK universities is from an ethnic minority background. Source: 2007-08 ‘HESA Student Record’ published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).


2 4 6 8 10

The University of Bath

University of the West of England, Bristol

University College PlymouthSt Mark and St John

University of Bristol

University of Gloucestershire

The University of Exeter

Bath Spa University

The University of Plymouth

University College Falmouth

Harper Adams University College

Royal Agricultural College

11

11%

10.6%

10.0%

8.2%

4.7%

4.5%

2.8%

1.5%

0.9%

0.8%

3.4%

Total Ethnic Minority Representation

All UK Unis. - 16.0%

WM Pop. (18-24) - 3.8%

4.1 Where do ethnic minority students study in the South West?The representation of ethnic minorities was below the national 16.0% average at all 11 universities in the South West, including the universities of Exeter and Bristol. However, black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) representation at Exeter, Bristol, the University of the West of England and the University of Bath was above the representation of ethnic minorities in the local population (3.8%) at all institutions.

Ethnic Minorities at Universities in the South West (2007 - 08)

“More BAME students join the unemployed after graduation than White graduates and

male Chinese and Pakistani students are twice as likely as the average to be unemployed” (2006)

Source: www.aimhigher.ac.uk/sites/practitioner/resources/Conf%20Summary%20Report%20final%20(2).pdf

Source: 2007-08 ‘HESA Student Record’ published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).


[ 5 ] Religion

5.1 A snapshot of the South West

Nearly three-quarters of the population in the South West said their religion was Christian, a little above the national average. The next largest stated religion was Muslim with 0.5 per cent, substantially smaller than the 3.1 per cent for England as a whole and the smallest for any English region. Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/commentaries/ south_west.asp

More than one in five people in Bristol and Exeter said they had no religion.Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/commentaries/south_west.asp

Religions within the UK

Christian - 71.6%

Buddhist - 0.3%

Hindu - 1%

Jewish - 0.5%

Muslim - 2.7%

Sikh - 0.6%

Other - 0.3%

No Religion/Religion not stated - 23%

5.2 The UK overall picture

In the UK, 2.7% of the population stated their religion as Muslim making this the most common religion after Christianity. Figures for England alone, show that 3.1% of the population stated their religion as Muslim.

Source: Census 2001 – Profiles - UK



[ 6 ] Employment

6.1 Ethnic minority employment rate in the South West

In 2004, the lowest ethnic minority employment rate in Great Britain (at 51.4%) was to be found in the north-west of England and the highest (at 71.8%) in the South West. Source: Commission for Racial Equality Factfile 1 – Employment and Ethnicity, published April 2006


South West All regions

Ethnicity of practising certificate holders

African Caribbean

Asian

Chinese

African

Other Ethnicity

White

Unknown

Total

17

70

20

19

41

6,547

625

7,339

0.2

1.0

0.3

0.3

0.6

89.2

8.5

100

657

4,979

579

863

1,377

77,514

10,999

96,968

0.7

5.1

0.6

0.9

1.4

79.9

11.3

100

No. % No. %

African Caribbean

Asian

Chinese

African

Other Ethnicity

White

Total

3

22

6

4

7

546

588

0.4

8.7

0.6

1.0

1.6

87.7

100

83

964

147

194

338

8,130

9,856

0.8

9.8

1.5

2.0

3.4

82.5

100

South West All regions

No. % No. %

Ethnicity of trainees

Source: The Law Society fact sheet series 2006

Source: The Law Society fact sheet series 2006

• In 2002/3, people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds were least likely to be in employment in all nine government office regions of England, as well as in Wales and Scotland, with employment rates ranging from 39.3% in the East Midlands to 55.8% in the South West.

Source:Commission for Racial Equality Factfile 1 – Employment and

Ethnicity, published April 2006

• In January 2010, the South West was the region with the narrowest spread of unemployment rates, with 4.1 percentage points between Purbeck in Dorset at 3.3 per cent and Torbay at 7.4 per cent.

Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1606

• “Looking at unemployment in the South West in particular, we don’t currently have figures broken down by ethnic background. But we do know that so far the South West experienced a bigger rise in unemployment than London, the South East or the East Midlands. Youth unemployment has been rising faster than the national average, and we know ethnic minority workers tend to be younger.”

Source: Trevor Phillips’ speech at the Black South West Network

Conference, 9 November 2009

• The latest unemployment rate for Bristol is 6.4% of the economically active 16+ population, 0.5% lower than the England rate.

Source: Bristol Brief - GOSW Regional Intelligence Team, 19 February 2010

6.2 Employment Rate - UK

The UK ethnic minority employment rate is 59.2% Source: Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market: Quarter 3, 2009 - Ethnic Minority Analysis Team, November 2009


Leadership

• Consider appointing a Diversity / Race Diversity Champion to lead on the race agenda within your organisation.

• Develop a clear business case for working on race and link it to business objectives.

• Develop an action plan on race and integrate it into the key performance indicators of your managers.

People and Employees

• Tell your recruitment agencies, recruitment consultants and head-hunters that your organisation

is committed to racial equality and ask them to send you lists containing diverse candidates.

• Explicitly state in your recruitment marketing materials that individuals from diverse backgrounds

are welcome in your organisation.

• Monitor the ethnicity of your workforce and compare it to the local population.

Customers, Clients and Service Users

• Ensure your marketing teams or policy makers are signed up to your organisation’s commitment to

race equality.

• Review your advertising and promotional material to ensure they reflect the diverse marketplace, both in the content and images used.

• Consider including ethnic minorities in your focus groups and evaluation sessions for promotional or marketing campaigns.

Community Involvement

• Review the community impact work being done by your organisation and check whether they impact

on diverse communities.

• As education and skills are the critical components of any workforce, consider partnering with a local school where ethnic minority children could benefit from increased educational attainment.

• Develop links with local universities that have relatively high proportions of ethnic minority students and offer work placements/experiences.

Supplier Diversity

• Do an audit of your current suppliers to find out whether you have awarded any contracts to ethnic minority owned businesses.

• Consider publishing clear guidance notes to help ethnic minority businesses tender for contracts

with your organisation.

• Send your procurement officers to local supplier events to raise their awareness of products/services available from local ethnic minority suppliers.

[ 7 ] Simple steps to get started on Race Equality



Acknowledgements

This publication has been made possible through funding from the Department for Local Communities and Government (DCLG) Tackling Race Inequalities Fund (TRIF)



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Race for Opportunity Board Members

MITIEMs Ruby McGregor-SmithCEO and Chair RfO

ASDA Ms Sarah DickinsRetail People Director

Barclays Bank PLC Mr Vivek Ramachandran Head of UK Cash and Trade

British ArmyColonel Mark AbrahamAssistant Director Employment

BT Mr Ray Lerclerq Chief Financial Officer, Global Services

EDF Energy Mr Patrick ClarkeDirector of Connections

KPMG Ms Michelle Quest Head of People for the UK

Department of Health Mr Surinder SharmaNational Director for Equality & Human Rights

Appointment Commission Ms Anne WattsCBE, Chair

Paradoes Mr Denys RaynerCEO

Pertemps People Management Ms Carmen Watson, Managing Director - Commercial Division

Roast Mr Iqbal WahhabCEO

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd Mr Jat Sahota Head of Corporate Responsibility

Shell Companies in the UK Mr James Smith, Chairman

The Royal Bank of Scotland GroupMr Ron Teerlink Chief Administrative Officer

Transport for London Mr Andrew Quincey Director of Group Procurement

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