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Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs)The Equality Duties place a legal obligation on public sector organisations to actively promote equality of opportunity in all that they do. This includes our policy development, our programme design and implementation and our service delivery. What is an equality impact assessment? An equality impact assessment is the process of assessing the impact of existing or proposed policies, functions and practices in relation to their consequences for minority groups. Measuring equality impact should be part of the routine element of better policy making and all policy must at least meet the minimum level of the initial screening stage, where relevance and impact of the policy on equality is assessed. This is a positive process that should lead to real and practical improvements in relation to policies and practices. It should not be seen either as inherently difficult, or as an activity apart from other policy development and assessment work, but can be integrated into the consultation and Impact Assessment process as long as the specific considerations to Race, Disability and Gender equality are clearly documented. |
