Breakdown of all council spending on equality, diversity, and unconscious bias training for council staff. - Find a freedom of information request

For the financial years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, please provide a breakdown of all council spending on equality, diversity, and unconscious bias training for council staff.

This is to include, for instance, travel and accommodation costs where staff have been sent on such courses.

Please provide this information as below:

Amount spent in financial year 2021-2022 (£)

Amount spent in financial year 2022-23 (£)

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

Costs listed where training was delivered by trainers not employed by Lincolnshire County Council Majority of training is delivered online.

Where events have been face to face, mileage may have been claimed when the venues were not at attendees normal work base, however this is not consistently itemised to these particular events.

 *Prior to the 2021 HMICFRS inspection of Lincolnshire Fire & Rescue it was highlighted that many staff had not had sufficient training on their responsibilities under EDI.

This was also picked up during the inspection process. LFR reviewed staff understanding and the best method of engaging people with EDI and decided that dedicated face to face facilitated training was the best way of improving understanding and gaining buy in.

An external trainer was brought in to develop specific content relevant to our range of staff. This was delivered throughout 2022 to all staff (circa 600)