Reform wants to cut council diversity roles. The problem is there are already barely any | Reform UK
The reform of the councils carried out by the UK has an average role of 0.5 diversity and equality, and the party interrupts such jobs and questioned the purpose of saving a significant amount of money.
According to the demands of freedom of knowledge, 10 British Councils operated by the reform had a combined 4.56 full -time (FTE) (FTE) (FTE), including the roles required by laws, including disabled students, including equality and diversity.
Even using the assumed average full -time salary, cutting all roles will save the councils operated by reform slightly less than 0.003% of the combined budgets.
The reform won more than 670 chairs in the local elections in May and took control of 10 councils. The next day he celebrates his party’s success at a rally, Nigel Farage said staff In these councils working on diversity, “they are really looking for alternative careers, very, very fast,”.
Before the elections, Farage and other senior reform figures, diversity, and the amount that can be saved by interrupting the involvement roles, the US government diversity attempts Elon Musk’s so -called “Government Productivity Department” or Modeling the objectives of cutting by Dogge.
A very repeated figure was that the cutting of such plans in the central government was able to save £ 7 billion per year. Official statistics show that the real amount spent in 2022-23 last year was £ 27 million.
Reform UK said that the number of 7 billion pounds comes from the amounts Competed in 2022 Thought on one right is a conservative way. However, this also discussed the government budgets for any charity and Quangos, who fulfilled what he saw as the “awakened” activities of the report.
Shortly after the local elections, the BBC asked how much money reform could save from the councils by interrupting diversity efforts, and the party’s chair Zia Yusuf was a bit uncertain. He implied that some authorities were trying to hide their roles by giving them to other people who are basically the same job but under a different title ”.
Last month, Yusuf resigned as a presidency of one of the party’s deputies to be banned from Burqas. Two days later, he returned to reform as the president of his own style “Doge” team to find the savings of the council.
Since then, Yusuf said very little about equality attempts, beyond boasting The Durham Council, which is operated by the reform, “Reconstruction of several key departments to remove climate change, equality and inclusive support”. Durham has 1.8 full -time equivalent diversity role, but all of them are linked to the tasks required by the law.
In June he said Now run by the reform, Kent Council said that it is 22% of its annual payrolls for £ 90 million pounds per year for £ 90 million per year. However, this was not a contract, but a framework for a national public sector recruitment system operated by the city, and critics showed that it did not understand Yusuf’s supply systems.
Potential savings within the councils, for the authorities at most district levels, Most of the budgets It continues the duties that are required by laws, including adult social care and child services.
Reform for comment was contacted with Reform UK. Councils are Derbyshire, Doncaster, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Northamponshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and West Northamponshire.
The Liberal Democratic Opposition leader Amanda Hopgood, the leader of the party’s “reform clock” group, is mocking what he has to accomplish. They are more concerned about saving the councils from money. ”
