Sheffield Children’s Hospital employs around 3,800 people, with colleagues from an ethnic minority representing 11 per cent of the workforce. Sheffield is a diverse city with 19 per cent of the population from an ethnic minority.

Although the hospital’s board was diverse in other ways such as gender and LGBTQ, it recognised that it lacked ethnic minority representation. The leadership felt it was essential that the board was representative of its workforce and the communities that it serves.