We aim to create a diverse and inclusive organisation.
To know if we are achieving this, we ask everyone involved with us to submit their personal details so that we can understand the composition of our organisation and those interested in it. This allows us to identify areas of underrepresentation and prepare better for the needs of our particular community.
The questions are personal but your data is collected anonymously. It will be kept strictly confidential and only used only for statistical purposes. It will only accessible to a limited number of authorised Coventry Artspace staff and Trustees. It will never be used in a way that identifies or links to you personally and will only ever be used for the purposes stated.
Your disclosure is entirely voluntary and even if you select 'Prefer not to say' on some questions, your contribution will be helping us to build an inclusive culture. We plan to report the aggregate results of our diversity audit internally as one tool in a wider discussion about the kinds of diversity that are important to our Board.
The confidentiality, use of, and accessibility of data is kept in line with our obligations under the retained EU law version of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 and the Data Protection Act 2018. Some of the data we are collecting is Special Category data (so called in law because it is particularly sensitive) and we are taking care to ensure your data is safe, secure, and handled responsibly. For more information about how rights are protected under data protection laws and how we process personal information generally, please see our privacy notice https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kLpBZKe9v_VlBQBYX6wf9dO3LvLPhiVr/edit
Where possible we have used standard terms, such as ethnicity categories that match those from the UK Census 2021. Where areas are more difficult to measure, such as socioeconomic diversity, we have chosen questions and options that align to best practice recommendations. For example, our 'secondary school type' and 'parental occupation' questions are modelled on those outlined by the Social Mobility Commission.
