Community and living
Equality and diversity
Equalities - assessment and consultation
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A. Equality Impact Assessments (EIA)
Equality Impact Assessments are a self-assessment tool to help our Council departments and services look at the likely positive and negative impact of their work on staff, members, service users / customers, partnerships, individuals and communities with regards to equality of opportunity in employment and service delivery.
The aim is to identify both positive and negative outcomes, and to take appropriate action to minimise or remove the negative outcomes.
Why do we need to do it?
The Council is committed to ensuring that it delivers all of its services in a fair and equal way. It also pledges to develop an inclusive recruitment and selection procedure aimed at creating a modern and diverse workforce. This two-pronged approach ensures that we work towards removing barriers to our services and actively promote and support diversity in employment.
Legislation has also brought in the requirement to not only tackle discrimination but to actively promote diversity. This is a significant change to our responsibilities and one that will require us to act in different ways.
The Council’s Corporate Equality and Diversity Policy draws together in one document the legislative process, the Council’s service delivery commitments, employment commitments and policy statements in relation to the six strands of the equality standard, which are:
Age, Disability, Race, Religion or Belief, Gender and Sexual Orientation
In order for us to measure progress towards promoting diversity, we need to ensure we carry out Equality Impact Assessments on all Council functions, services, projects, strategies and policies.
We carry out these assessments using the following teamplate:
Equality Impact Assessment Template
The complete list of assessment can be found arranged alphabetically down the right hand side of this page.