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Our Pay Declaration

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We believe in a better world for every child

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I) are fundamental to achieving our vision of a better world for every child. We are working towards a culture that empowers and enables all our people to deliver their best work for children.

Our latest report

This is our third year of voluntarily communicating our sexual orientation and disability pay gaps and the fourth year for our ethnicity pay gap, alongside the required gender pay gap reporting. We also continue to report on intersectionality where possible (the interconnected nature of gender and ethnicity). This is the first year reporting on LGBTQIA+ pay gaps, which enables us to report on our trans and non-binary colleagues; and the first year we have used declared gender rather than gender assigned at birth.

We are voluntarily disclosing and acting on more than is mandated because we believe we play an important role in fulfilling our ED&I commitments, and we welcome transparency.

We recognise the reality that marginalised groups continue to face additional barriers to inclusion in the workplace. Closing pay gaps is an important component of our work on Diversity and Inclusion.

While we are pleased to report improvements in Gender and Ethnicity, we have seen gaps widen for Disability and Sexual Orientation so we know we have more we need to do in addressing and decreasing our pay gaps.

Our pay gaps are largely driven by under-representation of global majority, disabled and LGBTQIA+ colleagues in higher-paying roles within our organisation. This being said, we are seeing the number of colleagues with these identities increasing within our organisation and we are proud that on average 87% of colleagues shared their diversity data with us. Achieving greater diversity in our leadership is a key goal for us – we are progressing a series of practical actions to achieve this. To learn more about our pay gaps, commitments and actions,  read the full report.