The focus on managing austerity budgets has tended to obscure the fact that ethnic diversity within the public sector at the senior end appears to have ground to a halt. A recent report by Green Park into diversity found alarming BME under-representation at the upper echelons of Whitehall and local government which it says 'is so low that it almost defies analysis.' There is just one non-white council chief executive in London (and he is retiring) and none among the core cities outside London. The report adds: 'There is less ethno-cultural diversity in local authority leadership across the UK than in the FTSE 100; even the most diverse area of Britain, London, has a lower proportion of visible minority executives than the FTSE 100.' Among the general population 13% belong to a minority ethnic group (MEG) and in the core cities 17% but in London the percentage rises to 40%. Yet among the top 20 posts at London boroughs just 7.3% come from multiple ethnic groups with Tower Hamlets at the top. In the core cities 90% of chief officers are white with the most diverse being Liverpool. Among county councils 96.5% of chief officers are white with children's services at 97.1%, adults at 98.9%, environment at 98.3% and corporate resources and finance at 96%. Out of 1,500 senior council posts just 64 are from a black, minority ethnic background (BME).
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机译：对紧缩预算进行管理的重点往往掩盖了一个事实，即高端公共部门内部的种族多样性似乎已停止。 Green Park最近发表的一份关于多样性的报告发现，在白厅高层和地方政府中，BME的代表性不足令人震惊，称其“如此之低，以至于几乎无视分析”。伦敦只有一名非白人议会首席执行官（他正在退休），伦敦以外的核心城市中也没有。该报告补充说：“与FTSE 100相比，英国各地地方政府领导层的民族文化多样性较少；即使是英国最多元化的地区，伦敦的少数族裔高管比例也比富时100指数低。在总人口中，13％属于少数民族（MEG），在核心城市中占17％，但在伦敦，这一比例上升到40％。然而，在伦敦市镇的前20名职位中，只有7.3％来自多个族裔群体，塔哈姆雷特（Tower Hamlets）位居榜首。在核心城市，90％的首席官是白人，而利物浦是最多样化的。在县议会中，有96.5％的首席执行官是白人，其中儿童服务占97.1％，成年人占98.9％，环境占98.3％，企业资源和财务占96％。在1,500个高级理事会职位中，只有64个来自黑人，少数民族背景（BME）。
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