In 2014, having supported The Staff College to deliver the Black and Asian Leadership Initiative (BALI), I wrote a paper examining why there were so few black senior leaders in children's services and across other chief officer positions.
The paper highlighted the obstacles faced by black applicants and how process discrimination starts at the very point organisations seek to recruit to vacant leadership posts.
It also identified how additional mantles are given to those who are successfully recruited, including the hopes of other black staff - and diverse communities - that historic discrimination will be understood and addressed, and sometimes the collective sigh of relief that organisations give as they pass the "equality" brief over to the black member of the team.
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