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Equality Impact Assessment Form

The Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) was introduced as part of the Equality Act 2010, which protects people from discrimination in the workplace, in the provision of services and in wider society.

The duty requires all public bodies to have due regard to the need to:

  • Eliminate discrimination.
  • Advance equality of opportunity.
  • Foster good relations between different people

Public bodies demonstrate this due regard in different ways, including producing robust equality impact assessments when considering changes to policies, services and developing projects.

An Equality Impact Assessment enables checks to take place concerning the potential impacts on those affected by policies, services and projects. It’s an opportunity to challenge business as usual approaches.

The purpose of an Equality Impact Assessment is to take account of equality as plans develop, to promote and assist the consideration of equalities issues arising in plans and proposals and to ensure that where possible adverse or disproportionate impacts are minimised, and positive impacts are maximised. An Equality Impact Assessment should be used to ensure decision makers have all the information they need regarding potential impacts to ensure they have due regard to the Public Sector Equality Duty when making judgements.

As Project Groundwater is a community-focused partnership, it is therefore imperative that the project team ensure that there is a true representation from the whole community to account for as many different opinions and perspectives as possible, as well actively seeking to engage with those who have, traditionally, been hard to reach.

The Equality Impact Assessment will be the responsibility of the Project Groundwater Engagement Workstream as they will have the most contact with communities and stakeholders. An Equality Impact Assessment should be completed at every milestone, large scale engagement activity, or periodically to ensure that any future risks can be mitigated.

Please complete the following questions:

Name:

Workstream:

Date:

Brief description of the activity or document including what is to be achieved and who is being impacted.

Is there sufficient data/understanding of stakeholders and communities to complete this assessment?



If no, what data is required and how can it be obtained?

Impacts

Highlight the potential impacts (including unintended impacts or consequences) for each protected characteristic*/equality groups below.  Where there are negative or positive impacts please give more details of the impact.  Where the impacts are unclear, please explain why.

Age*





Disability*





Pregnancy & maternity*





Race & Ethnicity*





Marriage & Civil Partnership*





Religion & Belief*





Sex*





Sexual Orientation*





Gender Reassignment*





Gender identity





Carers





Rural isolation





Single parent families





Poverty (social & economic deprivation)





Military families / veterans





Conclusion

Taking into account all of the above information, provide a summary of the key findings and areas of concern, including any barriers to seeking change.

Summary:

Action plan

Following the initial assessment and the conclusions drawn, create an action plan as to the actions to be taken to mitigate any potential negative or unclear impacts. Where impacts are unavoidable, the objective of the action plan is to demonstrate that impacts have been acknowledged and considered.

Action one

Action two

Action three

Action four

Action five

Monitoring and Evaluation

Not all actions work out as planned – they can be better than expected or they cannot have the desired impact. It is important to monitor actions to ensure they are delivering what is required and if not, to implement change to ensure they do.

Provide a description of how the activity or document in question will be monitored to ensure that the positive impacts are realised. Include possible mitigation measures should an impact be negatively affecting one or more groups, as well as a review schedule.

Description:

Assessment completed by

Assessment signed off by

Date

Date of next assessment