1. Diversity and Inclusion
Muhammad Abdul Karim
Diversity and Inclusion Manager

2. Background Every 5 years we revise the D&I Strategy
Strategy agreed with Executive Board
Strategy consulted upon and communicated internally
Roles and responsibilities agreed with Customer Directorate
Diversity and Inclusion cross functional working group established
An Executive Diversity and Inclusion Working Group is also in place

3. Work Areas External Improving partnership working
Enhancing customer experience
Promoting the use of public transport
Fulfilling our legal obligations
Spreading good practice

4. Work Areas Internal Training and raising awareness
Developing an inclusive culture
Improving workforce diversity
Fulfilling legal obligations

5. Objectives
External
Strategic objective 1 – To establish effective partnership working arrangements with key representative groups to ensure that they are fully engaged in the design and delivery of transport services and infrastructure.
Strategic objective 2 - To review current processes and practices that support community engagement (including the DDRG) and to introduce improvements.
Strategic objective 3 - To introduce processes to clearly and accurately identify the protected characteristic demographics of the city region and to compare usage of public transport against those demographics.
Strategic objective 4 – To introduce measures including targeted promotion to increase the usage of public transport of underrepresented protected characteristic groups.
Strategic Objective 5 - To benchmark organisational diversity and inclusion performance against the best in class organisations and to prioritise actions to enable the achievement of best in class performance

6. Objectives
Internal
Strategic objective 1 – To introduce a comprehensive programme of training and awareness raising to ensure that all employees are aware of their personal and professional diversity and inclusion obligations.
Strategic objective 2 - To build a truly inclusive organisational culture by reviewing current organisational processes and practices and by introducing appropriate improvements.
Strategic objective 3 - To accurately identify the make-up of the current workforce by protected characteristics and to set out and deliver against a realistic and targeted plan to move towards a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve.
Strategic objective 4 – To commission an external benchmarking activity that identifies the gaps between current Diversity and Inclusion performance and that of similar organisations that are considered as best in class.
Strategic Objective 5 – To use the benchmark gap analysis to set the strategic objectives for future years.

7. Way Forward Develop the objectives into actions with time scales
Implement actions