Disability - Staff Monitoring Report 2022/23

Disability 2022/23

Proportion % by Disability Declaration in 2022/23

Pie chart showing the proportion of staff who declared a disability, did not declare a disability, or had no disability information recorded. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Proportion by Disability Declaration (as at 31st July 2023)
Disability declaration	%
Yes	8.6%
No	89.2%
No data	2.2%

Most staff reported that they did not have a disability.

Scope: All Staff (please see inclusion/exclusion table)

Snapshot date: 31st July 2023 (Academic Year 2022/23)

Population and Disclosure Rate over 5 years

Bar chart showing the proportion of staff who declared a disability across five academic years. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Proportion of staff with disability over 5 years
Year	% Staff with disability
2018/19	8.1%
2019/20	7.7%
2020/21	7.4%
2021/22	7.9%
2022/23	8.6%

Disability declaration decreased in the earlier years shown before rising again.

Line chart showing the proportion of staff who declared either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the disability question across five academic years. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Disclosure Rate: Proportion of staff declaring ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Disability Question
Year	% Disclosure rate
2018/19	98.8%
2019/20	99.0%
2020/21	99.6%
2021/22	97.4%
2022/23	97.8%

The disability disclosure rate remained consistently high.

Snapshot date(s): 2018/19 to 2022/23 as at 31st July of each year.

Scope: All Staff – Academic Staff (Central, Regional, Researcher & ALs) and Professional & Support Staff – data does not include OU subsidiaries (OUSA, OUW, Mulberry Bear) or agency/temp workers.

Disability by Employee Group

Two pie charts comparing disability disclosure for Academic Staff and Professional & Support Staff. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Disability by Employee Group
Disability	Academic Staff	Professional & Support Staff
Yes	9.4%	7.7%
No	86.9%	92.0%
Unknown	3.7%	0.3%

Academic Staff have a higher proportion of staff declaring a disability than Professional & Support Staff.

Snapshot date(s): 2022/23 (as at 31st July 2023)

Scope: All Staff – Academic Staff (Central, Regional, Researcher & ALs) and Professional & Support Staff – data does not include OU subsidiaries (OUSA, OUW, Mulberry Bear) or agency/temp workers.

Disability by Employee Subgroup

Horizontal bar chart showing the proportion of staff declaring a disability across six employee subgroups. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Proportion of staff with disability by employee subgroup
Employee Subgroup	% staff with disability
Regional Academic Staff	10.3% (n=48)
Associate Lecturer	9.8% (n=446)
Support Staff	8.8% (n=166)
Central Academic Staff	7.0% (n=61)
Academic Related Staff	7.0% (n=180)
Research Staff	5.3% (n=8)

Disability declaration varies across employee subgroups, with Regional Academic Staff and Associate Lecturers showing the highest levels of declaration and Research Staff showing the lowest.

Snapshot date(s): 2022/23 (as at 31st July 2023)

Scope: All Staff – Academic Staff (Central, Regional, Researcher & ALs) and Professional & Support Staff – data does not include OU subsidiaries (OUSA, OUW, Mulberry Bear) or agency/temp workers.

Representation at senior level (Equality KPI targets)

Due to more colleagues with declared disabilities entering PB1 grades, the representation of disabled colleagues at senior level is now at 5.8%, a 1 percentage point increase from the previous year (2021/22). There are more disabled colleagues in professor bands (7.0%) compared to SS grades (4.4%). Due to this increase in representation, we are now 1.4% below target compared to 2.3% below target in the previous year.

Bar chart showing the proportion of senior-level staff who declared a disability over five years. A red horizontal target line is shown at 7.2% in 2022/23. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Proportion (%) of people with a disability at senior level across 5 years
Year	% Disclosure rate
2018/19	4.2% (n=9)
2019/20	3.2% (n=7)
2020/21	3.5% (n=9)
2021/22	4.9% (n=14)
2022/23	5.8% (n=18)

Disability representation at senior level has increased steadily since 2019/20, but remained below the 7.2% target in 2022/23.

Bar chart comparing the proportion of disabled staff at senior level across two grade groups. Details in the data table available after this graphic.

Representation of disabled staff at senior level by grade group – 2022/23
Grades	% Disclosure rate
PB1-PB3	7.0% (n=14)
SS0-SS5	4.4% (n=9)

Disabled staff are more highly represented in the PB1–PB3 grade group than in SS0–SS5.

Snapshot date(s): 2018/19 to 2022/23 as at 31st July of each year (above chart) | below chart shows the current year 2022/23 (as at 31st July 2023) SS0-SS5

Scope: Staff with ‘SS’ (Senior Staff) grades or ‘PB’ (Professor) grades

Disability - Recruitment

In 2022/23, the proportion of applicants with a declared disability was 7.3%, a slight increase from previous year (6.9%). The proportion of disabled candidates increased at the shortlisting stage to 8.5%. However, fewer disabled candidates were successful after interview, making up 5.3% of new appointments.

Disability representation at recruitment
Disability status	Number of applicants	% of all applicants	Number of Shortlisted Applicants	% of All Shortlisted Applicants	Number of Appointed Candidates	% of All Appointed Candidates	Proportion (%) of applicants shortlisted	Proportion (%) of shortlisted candidates interviewed	Proportion (%) appointed after interview
Disabled	1,123	7.3%	304	8.5%	55	5.3%	27.1%	80.6%	22.4%
Non-disabled	12,471	80.9%	2,707	76.1%	550	53.2%	21.7%	78.9%	25.7%
Prefer not to say	969	6.3%	262	7.4%	144	13.9%	27.0%	77.1%	71.3%
No data / Undisclosed	847	5.5%	285	8.0%	285	27.6%	33.6%	100.0%	100.0%
Grand Total	15,410	100.0%	3,558	100.0%	1,034	100.0%	23.1%	80.6%	36.0%

Reporting period : 1st August 2022 to 31st July 2023

Scope: All Staff – Academic Staff (Central, Regional, Researcher & ALs) and Professional & Support Staff – data does not include OU subsidiaries (OUSA, OUW, Mulberry Bear) or agency/temp workers.