• The wider senior leadership team is more diverse and
recent appointments to Director of Care, Interim Director
of Assets, Head of Assets and Property Strategy have all
been to BAME candidates.
• Accord has previously been part of PATH (Positive
Action Training in Housing) an initiative which saw
improved recruitment and retention of employees
from BAME backgrounds. Our Head of Locality (B’ham
& Coventry) was one of these trainees and he is now a
senior manager and Chairs the Chartered Institute of
Housing regional committee.
• The workforce is female biased due to the Care &
Support Directorate being the biggest employer and
predominantly female.
• Accord has an ageing workforce, partially due its
long serving employees and a tendency to attract more
mature applicants into its Care business.
• Levels of declared disability are lower than the West
Midlands census
There is always much more we should do. The swell
of support across the world for the Black Lives Matter
campaign is one that we must not just acknowledge but
support. The Board of Accord is leading on a campaign
to ensure our active involvement in this.
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