{"id":3088,"date":"2019-06-27T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2019-06-27T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:40:14","slug":"bame-appointments-welsh-government-must-do-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2019\/06\/27\/bame-appointments-welsh-government-must-do-more\/","title":{"rendered":"BAME appointments: Welsh Government &#8216;must do more&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107551241_gettyimages-1000867176.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107551241_gettyimages-1000867176.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/06\/107551241_gettyimages-1000867176-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people from minority ethnic backgrounds appointed\nto roles in public life in Wales is not good enough, a senior minister has\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n18 months, out of 170 appointments to public bodies by Welsh ministers, fewer\nthan six were from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health\nMinister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was looking again at the\npublic appointments process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ministers recognised &#8220;that there is something to do&#8221;, he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-politics-48771948\"> More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people from minority ethnic backgrounds appointed to roles in public life in Wales is not good enough, a senior minister has said. In 18 months, out of 170 appointments to public bodies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-ethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}