• Codes & guidance
• Civil Service policy
• Leadership
• Diversity
  • Guidance for managers
  • Guidance for employees
  • Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity
  • Work/life balance
  • Useful resources
  • Publications
• Professional Skills for Government
• Groups & networks
• Communities
• Careers & Development
• Civil Service pensions
• Employee engagement
• Events

I am a civil servant

The 10-Point Plan

Delivering a Diverse Civil Service – A 10-Point Plan set out commitments on 10 key areas that were intended to broaden and deepen cultural change across the Civil Service, however in 2008 the next strategy for the Civil Service Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity: A Strategy for the Civil Service was launched.

The aims of the plan were:

• to improve delivery of services for everyone in society through achieving a truly diverse Civil Service workforce at all levels, including the most senior
• to achieve by 2008 the agreed targets of:
  • 37% of the Senior Civil Service to be women
  • 30% of top management posts to be filled by women
  • 4% of the Senior Civil Service to be from minority ethnic backgrounds
  • 3.2% of the Senior Civil Service to be disabled people
• to use this visible change to lead broader change across the Service in the way we manage and value equality and diversity at all levels, in all aspects of our business.

The plan was an integral part of Civil Service reform: through achieving a more diverse workforce we will achieve a Civil Service better equipped to deliver, adapt and innovate.

Downloads

• 10-Point Plan (full version and cover image) [PDF 1.03MB, 33 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (full version without cover image) [PDF 215KB, 32 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (full version) [MS Word 206KB, 36 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (full version) [RTF 252KB, 36 pages]

• 10-Point Plan (summary and cover image) [PDF 5.03MB, 16 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (summary without cover image) [PDF 47KB, 14 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (summary) [MS Word 44KB, 6 pages]
• 10-Point Plan (summary) [RTF 22KB, 6 pages]

As part of this plan the Cabinet Office and the National School of Government have developed Leaders UnLtd [External website] , a positive action programme designed specifically for talented people in groups currently under-represented in the Senior Civil Service. The scheme is open to Grade 6/7 (or equivalent) UK civil servants who are either women, or who have a disability, or are from minority ethnic backgrounds.