Civil Service Recruitment Principles: FOI release
- Published
- 28 January 2025
- Directorate
- People Directorate
- Topic
- Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400445228
- Date received
- 15 December 2024
- Date responded
- 16 January 2025
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
If any Scottish Government departments were discriminating against candidates of a white ethnic background in favour of candidates from a minority ethnic background in regards to job applications.
Response
The Scottish Government is bound to the Civil Service Commission Principles, which states that our recruitment must be fair, open, and based on merit. This means that we must appoint people to the Civil Service based on who meets the criteria published in the advert and is ranked as the top candidate. You can read more in the Recruitment Principles Section of the Civil Service Commission Website at: Microsoft Word - RECRUITMENT PRINCIPLES April 2018 FINAL .doc
Discrimination against any ethnicity in favour of another is prohibited under the Equality Act 2010. Scottish Government holds itself to strict standards to ensure that we are compliant with the law.
About FOI
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Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
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