The PSC has already been working hard behind the scenes to remove unconscious bias from our hiring process, but we wanted to create a journey with real milestones to hold ourselves to account. The targets we’ve created are ambitious but achievable and go further than any of our competitors in this area.

Through our new diversity targets, The PSC will seek to achieve:

• By 2022, 50% of our consulting staff will be female
• By 2025, 25% of our consulting staff and 25% of our leadership team from ethnic minorities
• By 2028, 50% of our leadership team will be female

We will bring our commitment to improving D&I to all aspects of our internal and external work, to reduce inequalities in public services.

We believe that these targets can be achieved by removing barriers and thinking more broadly and inclusively. This will be reviewed annually as we're aware that we've only focused on a couple of protected characteristics at this stage.