Law firms are required by our regulators, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to collect and report workforce diversity data every two years. As part of this, we are required to publish our workforce diversity data on our website. You can view a summary of our 2023 diversity data below.

The data collected from everyone at the firm must be reported to the SRA, broken down by role categories.

The data includes:

  • Information about a person’s role, ownership and supervisory responsibilities
  • Information about a person’s protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010
  • Information about socio economic factors (education) and caring responsibilities

Castelo Solicitors 2023 Diversity Data.

Respondents

 

In total 9 people completed the diversity data collection survey, this represents 100% of the Castelo Solicitors workforce.

Roles

1 respondent is a solicitor partner (sole practitioner / member / director)

3 are solicitor non partners

4 are in a role directly supporting fee earners

1 is in a managerial role

Age

11% of the respondents are 16-24 years of age

11% are in the 25-34 age bracket

67% are between 35 and 44 years old

11% are in the 45-54 years category

Gender

100% of all respondents are female (includes solicitor partners, solicitor non partners, those in a role directly supporting fee earners and those in managerial positions).

Gender Identity

 

100% of all respondents confirmed that the gender they identify with is the same as the sex registered at their birth.

Disability

 

None of those who responded considered themselves to have a disability.

And 11% of the respondents felt their day-to-day activities were limited due to health problem or a disability lasting at least 12 months.

Ethnicity

33 % of respondents are any other white background

11% are white and black African

33% are any other mixed / multiple ethnic background

11% are any other Asian background

The remaining respondents are Indian

Religion/belief

11% of respondents are of no religion or belief

22% of respondents are of another religion or belief not listed

56% of respondents are Christian

11% of respondents are Sikh

Sexual Orientation

 

All of those who responded are heterosexual

Education

11% of respondents attended a selective state-run/funded school whilst 56% attended a non-selective one and 33% attended a school outside the UK.

56% of all respondents said that by the time they’d reached the age of 18, neither parent had attended university, whilst 22% said that one or both of their parents had, and the remaining 22% said they were not sure.

Economic Background

When asked which profession the main/highest income earner in their household worked in when the respondents were aged about 14, 11% preferred not to say, 22% said in routine, semi-routine, manual, and service occupations, 22% worked in clerical and intermediate occupations, a further 11% as small business owners and another 11% as senior, middle, or junior managers or administrators. The remaining respondents selected other such as: retired / this question does not apply to me / I don’t know.

Caring Responsibilities

56% of respondents have no primary carer responsibilities for a child under the age of 18

44% of the respondents confirmed that they do

11% of total respondents said they spent 1-9 hours providing unpaid care for someone with a long term physical or mental ill health caused by disability or age.

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