ScreenSkills asks all beneficiaries of its services to complete diversity and inclusion monitoring. To offer equal opportunities, prevent discrimination and support under-represented groups, it is essential to monitor our work. We can only change what we measure.
Data helps us measure success and enables us to identify which of our approaches work and which don’t. At ScreenSkills we monitor to inform decisions on where to direct our resources and services. It helps us create a culture of diversity and inclusivity in the screen industries. Our approach is supported with statistics and research and built on best practice guidelines from the Government and organisations such as ACAS.
To understand more about ScreenSkills diversity and inclusion monitoring, see each question we ask, how it was developed and why we ask it, please see the guide to diversity and inclusivity monitoring.
Respondents who answer ‘Prefer not to say’ to diversity and inclusion questions will not be counted towards targets.
Respondents who answered ‘Prefer to self-describe’ and then gave a free-text answer will in most cases not be counted towards targets (with the exception of ethnicity self-description which already fall under an ethnic group heading, e.g. Asian Prefer to self-describe).
As most diversity and monitoring questions include the option for a free-text answer, the ScreenSkills data management team will meet monthly, with input from the ScreenSkills research team, to analyse free-text answers and decide whether updates to monitoring questions are necessary to better reflect data. However, the data management team will not be able to change a beneficiary’s question response in order to re-classify them without those beneficiaries explicit permission to do so.
ScreenSkills collects a range of diversity and inclusion data to inform its investment decisions and as part of its mission to improve inclusion in the industry. There are different targets for different programmes and different funding streams with the aim of improving inclusion.
By illustration, the targets adopted for delivery of the BFI Future Film Skills strategy are as follows:
The basic HETV targets for all programmes as agreed by the High-end TV Skills Council are:
50% women -
20% Black, Asian and minority ethnic (40% in London)
10% LBGT
10% disabled
50% nations and regions
Some working groups have the option to flex targets depending on the programme.
To report against these groups, we will translate the diversity data we collect into the above categories, using the following dimensions:
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as:
Not included are those who identified themselves as:
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as:
Not included are those who identified themselves as:
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as:
Not included are those who identified themselves as
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as:
And/or those who identified themselves as:
Not included are those who identified themselves as:
And identified themselves as:
Included in this target are those who entered current postcodes within the regions of:
Not included are those who entered a current postcode within the regions of:
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as attending:
Not included are those who identified themselves as attending:
Included in this target are those who identified themselves as growing up with parental or guardian occupations of:
Not included are those who identified growing up with the parental or guardian occupations of:
Because ScreenSkills has adopted a self-identification model of diversity monitoring, we are reliant on our beneficiaries self-selecting their personal characteristics. This may result in small margins of error due to the individual choices of those completing monitoring.