About the OFT
Culture and values
The OFT is an independent, professional body staffed by high performing economists, lawyers and generalists. As well as our mission, we live by four values:
OFT Values
Passion
We make markets work well for consumers, with enthusiasm and conviction. We bring excitement, energy and life into our day-to-day work and encourage each other in achieving our goals.
Trust
We achieve more by being reliable, valuing risk-taking, sharing work and engaging openly and respectfully with each other. OFT feels like a supportive family.
Courage
We have a greater impact on consumers by being bold, innovative and questioning. With the help of our colleagues we do the right thing, rather than the easy thing, and we learn from our mistakes.
Openness
We break down barriers, across the workplace and externally, by being friendly, frank, transparent and inclusive.
Equality and Diversity at the OFT
The Office of Fair Trading is committed to equality and diversity in its workforce. Like every other organisation, the OFT is also subject to legal obligations concerning disability, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and age.
Equality and diversity is something we consider fully when working to achieve our mission of making markets work well for consumers. You can find out more by looking at information about our Annual Equality Review.
We are also committed to creating an inclusive working environment for our staff. We recognise the value of having a diverse team of people in our organisation, where all are respected and treated fairly and are provided with the right balance of challenge and opportunity to develop. Statistical information on the diversity of our staff can be found in our Annual Plan.
As set out in our current Annual Plan, and in support of government's approach to vulnerability, we are working on a cross-office project looking at vulnerability and equality with a view to producing a framework to aid case selection and handling. This is scheduled to report in October 2011.
We have used the Equality Act 2010 as the catalyst to review our key external and internal policies, and to review projects and cases undertaken in the financial year 2010/11. Going forward, we will continue to provide such reports on an annual basis.
Our annual Equality Review (pdf 64kb) give examples of where we have met the General Duty of Equality Act 2010 and is set out in the Equality and Diversity Action Plan table (pdf 59kb).
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