Exempted Criteria
Many organisations were exempted depending on the size of their organisation. There have been some changes in exemptions for year 2.
Year 2
Below is a table which illustrates what the exemptions were and the conditions under which various questions were exempted for year 2.
We will change the exemption on publishing a diversity plan from 10 or fewer staff to 5 or fewer staff. This is mainly because if you encounter a foundation with 10 staff who are all demographically identical, the chances that this is a random chance is really low, and the foundation should have a plan to improve that. Indeed, the number of staff that a foundation can have, where, if they are demographically identical, that is from random chance, seems rather lower than 10. Five seems a better number.
Below is a table which illustrates what the exemptions were and the conditions under which various questions were exempted for year 2.
[1] The legal requirement is only for employers with over 250 staff. Very few foundations have that many staff. We used 50 staff as our exemption ceiling because that was the original recommendation to government by a report which it commissioned in 2017 from Baroness McGregor-Smith: https://assets.publishing.