TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2022
22 Organisational effectiveness
People and culture
WE SAID WE'D… …AND WE DID IT BY… THE IMPACT ON ANIMALS
✚ improve our equity,
diversity and inclusion
(ED&I) record
✚ creating and appointing our first head of
ED&I role
✚ becoming a Disability Committed employer
✚ running a successful Pride event
✚ doubling our number of black and minority
ethnic (BAME) Inspectorate officers
✚ signing up to the Age Positive Pledge
✚ We can improve the public's attitudes and
actions towards animals and better serve the
communities in which we operate by truly
being part of them
✚ develop leadership and
management opportunities
✚ engaging first-line managers in a Lead First
leadership and development programme
(shortlisted for a national training award), with
81 percent taking part
✚ introducing apprenticeship programmes
for managers
✚ With a 100 percent skills increase reported
so far, teams are better managed and supported
to do the best they can for animals
✚ Employee relations cases dropped from 13
in 2021 to three in 2022, suggesting better
management, which ultimately makes teams
more effective for animals
✚ develop a fair reward
and pay system
✚ introducing a tool whereby employees can
publicly recognise colleagues' contributions to
our values
✚ negotiating a new pay and progression
framework with Unite the Union
✚ moving the RSPCA pension scheme to a
new provider
✚ An open, transparent pay framework and
recognition of performance motivates our
people to achieve as much as they can for
animal welfare
✚ Safe, secure pension arrangements encourage
loyalty and long-term commitment to our
animal welfare goals
OUR ORGANISATIONAL WORK IN 2022
Staff working at the RSPCA's control
centre in Rotherham.
Strategic objectives
We recruit, develop and
support a diverse and talented
team of RSPCA employees.
We ensure financial sustainability
and robust stewardship of our assets.
We find innovative, efficient
technical solutions to the
challenges we face.
We base our decision-making
on interrogations of our
organisational performance.
We have strong, effective
governance backed up by
in-house legal support.