In 'To the point' (27 August 2009), Alan Bentley queries why the form for the CWDC's Qualifications Audit Tool needs to 'concentrate on the ethnicity of the workforce, when it is supposed to be measuring quality and qualifications'.
His point begs fundamental questions: Do we want a workforce based on principles of racial equality and free of racial discrimination? And do we want to remove any barriers preventing equality?
If the answers are yes, then how do we ensure this happens? While Mr Bentley may have some magic answers up his sleeve, in the real world the only effective way so far identified is by ethnic monitoring of the workforce (collecting, analysing and evaluating ethnic data) to identify practices, procedures or policies that indicate different success rates among ethnic groups, including white groups. Such evaluation then makes it possible to:
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