Just the day before this news broke, I applied for a job with the local constabulary as an IT admin officer. With it came a "Diversity" booklet, which waffled on about some **** about promoting the differences in society (surely the wrong way to go about binding a mulit-cultural society which is what they claim to wish to do) and also a monitoring form.
This form was the most intrusive one I've seen yet. Asked for age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, marriage status, disability, and even something else which escapes me at the moment. On the form was an assurance that it would only be used to check how many applications were being received by the force for certain "under-represented" groups. It also assured that the data would not be seen by the recruitment panel.
However, say that the force were recruiting too many white, straight, british, men without disabilities and who were not single parents then what would be done about it. With such a wealth of data readily available to use to choose (read: discriminate) then is it possible that they would not use it?
Needless to say the form remains unfilled.
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