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Equality Impact Assessments

 

The council is carrying out equality impact assessments on our services, functions, policies and procedures as part of our work on meeting the equality standard for local government. This includes existing policies, new policies or those which are being changed.

What are equality impact assessments?
They are a tool to identify whether or not policies, services and procedures are having an adverse impact on a particular group of people due to race, disability or gender, or in the case of new or changing policies, a potential adverse impact. In other words, are the council’s policies and procedures meeting our customers' needs and meeting our legal obligations. The idea is to identify any unintended impacts or "institutional" barriers, acts or omissions that affect individuals and communities detrimentally because of factors of race, gender or disability.

Additionally the equality impact assessment considers if there will be any positive impacts of the policy or service on groups of people in terms of disability, gender or race equality, or any ways in which the policy will actively promote equality or good community relations.

The results of the equality impact assessment are used to set equality objectives that become part of service plans, leading to improvements in service delivery and employment practices. They may also show that we need more information about our customers and service users, for example through monitoring or consultation.

We have developed a three-year schedule of equality impact assessments across all directorates.   Click here to view the corporate equality impact assessment programme 2007 - 2010PDF Logo

Completed equality impact assessments

Listed below are summaries of the equality impact assessments that have been completed to date in each directorate. We will be updating the documents regularly, adding more assessments as they are finalised. You can read a summary of each equality impact assessment by clicking on the links below PDF Logo

2006 – 07:

2007 – 08: