Council workforce and governance

We publish information about our workforce and governance arrangements.

Workforce facts and figures snapshot

Each year we produce data that details workforce characteristics.

• Ethnic origin
• Age and gender
• Marital status and sexual orientation
• Religion
• Staff who self-certify as having a disability

View our workforce facts and figures snapshot

Pay policy and pay multiple

• Pay policy statement
• Pay multiple dataset
• Metadata

Senior structure and salaries

This data covers employees with remuneration of £50,000 or above.

Senior structure

• Senior structure chart
• Senior structure dataset
• Senior structure dataset metadata

Senior salaries

• Senior salaries – count
• Senior salaries – count metadata
• Senior salaries – employees
• Senior salaries – employees metadata

See Open data notes for more about how senior pay data is published

Gender pay gap

• Gender pay gap report 2024

Trade union facility time

We publish data each year on the amount and cost of union facility time. The information provided is for the year 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.

We recognise the following Trade Unions:

• Unison
• GMB

During this period we:

• Had 3 employees who were relevant union officials (3 full-time equivalents)
• Had 2 employees who devoted at least 50% of their time to union duties (2 full-time equivalents)
• Spent £50,908.20 on unions which represents 0.05% of the total pay bill

Facility time data

• Trade union facility time dataset
• Trade union facility time dataset metadata

Constitution

The Constitution sets out how the council conducts business and makes decisions.