Fire service accused of making entrance test harder for white men to recruit more women and ethnic minorities
The West Midlands Fire Service has been accused of discrimination amid claims that the entrance test for services requires white men to score more to get through than the percentage required for women and applicants from ethnic minorities, according to reports.
A whistleblower has claimed that white men have to score 70 percent in a verbal and numerical reasoning test to get through to the next round, while women and people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups are required to score only 60 percent.
It has also been claimed that the bosses at the fire department are spending £2,500 per month on Facebook advertisements, targetted specifically at women. The source, who reportedly wanted to remain anonymous, told the Daily Mail that the recruitment programme, introduced in late 2017, cost £100,000 a year.