Indicator 4

Relative likelihood of directly employed regulated professionals from a minority ethnic background entering the fitness-to-practice process in the last 12 months, compared to White staff

Indicator 4 Relative likelihood of directly employed regulated professionals from a minority ethnic background entering the fitness-to-practice process in the last 12 months, compared to White staff
- Relative likelihood
Adult social care 0.00
Children's social care 0.36
Total 1.03

Wres 2026 indicator 4 figure 1

What does the data tell us?

  • the relative likelihood of directly employed regulated professionals from a minority ethnic background entering the fitness-to-practice process in the last 12 months ending 24 October 2025 across all posts, compared with a White ethnicity is 1.03 (0.55 in 2024). Therefore, staff with a Black, Asian and minority ethnic background were no more or less relatively less likely to enter fitness to practice processes
  • in Adults the relative likelihood was 0 as no ability to compare (no staff entered fitness to practice process in 2024) but in Children’s staff were less likely to enter a fitness to practice process with a relative likelihood of 0.36 (1.75 in 2024)

What have we achieved?

  • we have an established a Fitness to Practice tracking process that can report on referrals by demography including ethnicity
  • we have identified Single Point of Contact/s for Social Work England in adults and children’s services

What we are working towards?

  • monitoring and reporting on diversity in Fitness to Practice processes to our Workforce boards

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