New Dividend Taxs UK

No worries :+1: The 100k was probably just 1 role like a “chief officer” but was in the media recently. It was in, I think, a Guardian article about the Stonewall charity and companies pulling out due to the costs etc.

An example of money going on these things is quote from the Lesbian and Gay news "NHS and related bodies gave Stonewall £466,065 over 2018-21. In total, 58 health service organisations paid for membership of the Diversity Champions scheme. Last week there was an outcry when a Telegraph investigation revealed that, thanks to the implementation of transgender inclusive policies, many hospitals in England can no longer guarantee single-sex wards. This is in-line with Stonewall’s approach, whereby an individual’s professed gender identity trumps their biological sex. The Telegraph found some NHS trusts tell their staff to call the police and report a hate crime if a patient does not accept another person’s gender identity.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust policy states “Just as the Trust will not adapt practice in light of Racist concerns expressed as discomfort, so the Trust will not adapt practice in light of Transphobic concerns expressed as discomfort.”

The Nottinghamshire Trust has paid a total of £11,148 to Stonewall, including for a Leadership Programme, Open Models Programme and Network Group Masterclass."

This is BEFORE paying for the officers employed. Again the cause is bang on important but not being dealt with efficiently and as mentioned above the dividend tax will go on things like this. I thought the unions were supposed to push for these kinds of things TBH.

TO BE CLEAR - Any company/boss found to be racist should be dealt with properly/severely but some, not all, of these roles are wasted money. It worries me a place like the NHS with limited money needs to employ someone to essentially tell them how to be a decent human being/employer full time and on more money then the nurses.

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