RESULTS OF SRA DIVERSITY SURVEY 2023
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, and publish the data. Completion by personnel of the survey is not compulsory, and the data regarding religion and sexual orientation is excluded from the publication requirement. Also, publication of the data has to be in a form such that individuals cannot be identified.
The diversity survey data results are set out below.
Gender
Female – 100%
Category of personnel
Partner/manager – 33%
Non-partner fee earner – 23%
Other non-fee earner – 44%
Age
25 to 34 – 22%
35 to 44 - 34%
45 to 54 – 22%
55 to 64 – 22%
Disability according to Equality Act 2010
No – 100%
Disability
Having a disability a little – 11%
Not having a disability – 89%
Education - School
State-run or state-funded school - selective on academic, faith or other grounds – 55%
State-run or state-funded school - non-selective 33%
Independent/fee paying school – 12%
Ethnicity
British, English, Welsh etc – 100%
Carer – Time spent providing unpaid care for those with long term physical or mental ill health caused by disability or age
None - 77%
Carer – 22%
Primary Carer – children under 18
Primary carer - 55%
Not primary carer - 45%
