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Workforce diversity report

Workforce diversity monitoring report 

1. Introduction

Welcome to Blackpool Council's interim annual workforce monitoring report for the period to 11 December 2025.

The purpose of the report is to provide a profile of Blackpool Councils workforce by disability, gender, ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, and religion and belief.

Our overall aim as contained within one of our core equality objectives, is that ;

“The workforce is representative of the community the council serves and equality and diversity is embedded within our staff culture. “

This report has been written, based upon up-to-date employee equality data that is available. There is still ongoing engagement with the workforce to complete the collation of up-to-date sensitive employee data following the introduction of a new HR system.

For the purpose of this report any data that is missing is quoted within each data set as “in the process of being refreshed,” and this missing date is not included in the overall summary chart percentages.

Workforce diversity – Local authority excluding schools as at 11 December 2025

Sex

Breakdown of numbers - Sex
Description Number Percentage
Male 761 28.7%
Female 1,888 71.3%
Total 2,649 N/A

Race

Breakdown of numbers - Race
Description Number Percentage
White 2,192 93.5%
Black, minority ethnic 92 3.9%
Prefer not to say 60 2.6%
Total 2,344 N/A
In process of being refreshed 305 N/A

Disability

Breakdown of numbers - Disability
Description Number Percentage
Declared a disability 131 5.8%
Declared no disability 2,043 89.9%
Prefer not to say 98 4.3%
Total 2,72 N/A
In process of being refreshed 377 N/A

Sexual orientation

Breakdown of numbers - Sexual orientation
Description Number Percentage
Straight/Heterosexual 1,992 86.6%
LGB 140 6.1%
Prefer not to say 169 7.3%
Total 2,301 N/A
In the process of being refreshed 551 N/A

Religion and belief

Breakdown of numbers - Religion and belief
Description Number  Percentage
Atheist/Humanism 143 6.1%
Other 83 3.6%
Prefer not to say 191 8.2%
None/Agnostic 847 36.3%
Christian 1,072 45.9%
Total 2,183 N/A
In process of being refreshed 313 N/A

Age profile

Breakdown of numbers - Age profile
Age range Number Percentage
16 to 19 15 0.6%
20 to 29 287 10.8%
30 to 39 544 20.5%
40 to 49 625 23.6%
50 to 59 755 28.5%
60 to 69 386 14.6%
70 plus 45 1.7%
Total 2,649 N/A

Definitions

  1. All data within this report unless stated excludes casual employees
  2. The report does not include data from school employees
  3. Data presented as per post holder/bodies – i.e. an employee can be counted twice if in more than one post
  4. The council has introduced new HR system which means that all council employee have been asked to refresh all their equality data hence in some area there are gaps in data