KPI: Applicants who are women
The percentage of people who apply for TfW roles who are women. Historically, the transport industry has employed fewer women than men. We want to change that. We are building a diverse team that mirrors the communities we serve.
Overview
Women applying for roles in TfW in Q2 2024/25 increased compared to the same quarter last year. During the quarter, we encouraged applications from women for all roles in TfW, particularly train driving and engineering. These opportunities were promoted by running Positive Steps events attended by people from diverse communities. We featured female role models in advertisements at stations and on board and released our first "Day in the Life" video, following one of our female trainee drivers. To ensure we reached a broad audience, we advertised on the Working Mums, Women in Rail and LinkedIn websites.
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Q2 2023/24 25.9% |
Q2 2024/25 30.4% |
Well-being of Future Generations Act (WFGA) goals addressed:
4. A More Equal Wales
5. A Wales of Cohesive Communities
Forward look
We remain focused on being one of Wales's leading inclusive employers by continuing to promote opportunities for women and ethnic minorities. We will continue to use positive action recruitment campaigns to promote our opportunities for women from all backgrounds. We are working with our community partners, Diverse Cymru and the Muslim Council for Wales to increase applications from talent in underrepresented areas such as women from ethnic minority backgrounds.
KPI: Women applicants who gain roles with TfW
The percentage of women applicants who are successful in acquiring a TfW role. We are working to build a diverse team that mirrors the communities we serve.
Overview
Women applicants who gained roles in TfW in Q2 2024/25 reduced in comparison with the same quarter last year. However, in Q2 our first female Director of Operations was appointed and women applicants gained leadership roles including People Director and Marketing and Sales Director.
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Q2 2023/24 37.1% |
Q2 2024/25 35.1% |
Well-being of Future Generations Act (WFGA) goals addressed:
4. A More Equal Wales
5. A Wales of Cohesive Communities
Forward look
We are determined to be one of Wales’s leading inclusive employers by representing the diverse communities we serve in our workplace. We will use targeted recruitment campaigns featuring female colleagues as role models, to encourage women to apply for roles in TfW, particularly in Engineering and Train Driving. We are continuing to work with our community partners, United for Change, Careers Wales, Women In Transport and Women in Rail and will advertise on their job boards to increase awareness of our opportunities. We are launching our first Returners Program which is a supported pathway back into work for women who have had a career break due to childcare, caring responsibilities or illness. We are continuously developing our employee value proposition and offer attractive salaries, terms and conditions and flexible working practices which we believe are attractive to women.
KPI: Colleague retention
The percentage of TfW colleagues who remained with TfW during the year. We monitor this in conjunction with why TfW colleagues leave the organisation so we can devise initiatives to increase employee retention. This will drive better performance, improve our business outcomes and reduce the risk of negative business performance.
Overview
Colleague retention has improved in Q2 2024/25 in comparison to the same quarter last year. Retention and colleague engagement are closely linked as engaged colleagues are more likey to stay with an organisation. We offered colleagues the opportunity to apply for internal leadership programmes and secondment opportunities with Welsh Government and Network Rail. We ran colleague engagement sessions on our Welsh Language Strategy, Strategic Equality Plan and the Cardiff Crossrail and promoted wellbeing campaigns which corresponded with national campaigns including World Suicide Day, National Inclusion Week and Menopause Awareness.
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Q2 2023/24 97.7% |
Q2 2024/25 98.5% |
Well-being of Future Generations Act (WFGA) goals addressed:
1. A Prosperous Wales
4. A More Equal Wales
Forward look
We will continue to offer career development opportunities to our colleagues through in-house and external training and partnerships with professionally recognised accreditations.
