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DIVERSITY DATA
Solicitors’ firms are now required to carry out an annual diversity survey for their firm, submit the responses to the Solicitors Regulation Authority in a form such that individuals cannot be identified, and publish the data.
Completion by personnel of the survey is not compulsory.
Category of personnel
| Solicitor partners (sole practitioner / member / director) | 16.67% |
| Solicitor (not partner) | 8.3% |
| Other fee earning role | 8.3% |
| Role directly supporting fee earner | 66.67% |
Age
| 16 to 24 | 16.67% |
| 25 to34 | 16.67% |
| 35 to 44 | 25% |
| 45 to 54 | 25% |
| 55 to 64 | 16.67% |
Gender
| Male | 8.33% |
| Female | 91.67% |
Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?
| Yes, gender identity the SAME as sex at birth | 100% |
Disability (according to Equality Act)
| No | 100% |
Day-to-day activities limited due to health problem or disability lasting at least 12 months
| No | 100% |
Ethnicity
| British / English / Welsh / Northern Irish / Scottish | 91.67% |
| Caribbean | 8.33% |
Religion or belief
| No religion or belief | 33.33% |
| Christian | 58.33% |
| Invalid / no response to this question | 8.33% |
Sexual orientation
| Heterosexual | 100% |
School type from 11 to 16
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| State-run or state-funded school – selective on academic, faith or other grounds | 16.67% |
| State-run or state-funded school – non-selective | 58.33% |
| Independent / fee-paying school | 16.67% |
| Attended school outside the UK | 8.33% |
Did either of your parents attend university by the time you were 18?
| No, neither of my parents attended university | 66.67% |
| Yes, one or both of my parents attended university | 25% |
| Don’t know / not sure | 8.33% |
Work of the main / highest income earner in your household when you were aged about 14
| Modern professional and traditional professional occupations such as: teacher, nurse, physiotherapist, social worker, musician, police officer (sergeant or above), software designer, accountant, solicitor, medical practitioner, scientist, civil / mechanical engineer | 41.67% |
| Senior, middle or junior managers or administrators such as: finance manager, chief executive, large business owner, office manager, retail manager, bank manager, restaurant manager, warehouse manager | 8.33% |
| Technical and craft occupations such as: motor mechanic, plumber, printer, electrician, gardener, train driver | 16.67% |
| Routine, semi-routine manual and service occupations such as: postal worker, machine operative, security guard, caretaker, farm worker, catering assistant, sales assistant, HGV driver, cleaner, porter, packer, labourer, waiter/waitress, bar staff | 8.33% |
| Small business owners who employed less than 25 people such as: corner shop owners, small plumbing companies, retail shop owner, single restaurant or cafe owner, taxi owner, garage owner/td> | 25% |
Primary carer for a child under 18
| Yes | 25% |
| No | 75% |
Time spent providing unpaid care for those with long term physical or mental ill health caused by disability or age
| No | 91.67% |
| Yes, 1 – 19 hours a week | 8.33% |
