The SRA has updated their diversity data based on information submitted to the SRA last summer from more than 8,700 firms employing more than 180,000 people. Firms are required to collect, report and publish data about the diversity make-up of their workforce every two years.
The data shows that:
- 5% of lawyers declared they are disabled and although this has increased from 4% in 2019, it is still significantly lower than the UK workforce where in 2021, 14% of the workforce declared a disability and 20% of the working age population.
- 4% of lawyers preferred not to declare whether they had a disability or not, this has increased slightly although with rounding it shows the same as in 2019 in the data tool.
- 5% of lawyers declared that their day-to-day activities were limited by a health condition or disability compared to 4% in 2019 (1% were affected a lot and 4% a little in 2021).
There is a slightly higher proportion of disabled solicitors (5%) than disabled partners (4%).
Read the key findings here.
