Recommendation 10

The more diverse the people in an organisation, the better run it is and the better decisions it makes. As part of the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy the civil service has committed to setting and working towards targets to increase the flow of ethnic minority and disabled staff into the senior civil service. The Cabinet Office explained that the functions play an important role in improving diversity by setting clear standards for recruitment and career pathways. It also told us that it had made broader changes to how and where it advertises jobs to bring about a better balance of internal and external recruits, and that it had made changes to how it carried out interviews. The Cabinet Office said it has made particular changes to the processes in place for the civil service fast stream, such as making sure the mix of assessors for roles was more diverse.19