I am delighted to have reached settlement in my Employment Tribunal case for discrimination and victimisation in connection with Civil Service EDI initiatives.
DCMS and DSIT have agreed to pay £116k, and to make a statement committing to overhaul their HR policies.
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In 2022, while employed as a civil servant at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (@DCMS), I became concerned about the department's approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). In line with Civil Service whistleblowing procedures, I raised formal concerns claiming that, through its HR policies and strategies, DCMS had:
- institutionally embraced politicised concepts and language
- used ‘EDI assessments’ to vet prospective senior civil servants
- compelled civil servants to recognise male people as women, and
- introduced ‘self-identification’ in government premises.
I also described a 'climate of fear’ around EDI, and named senior civil servants who I claimed had been complicit in significant breaches of impartiality.