Equality Impact Assessments

What is an Equality Impact Assessment?

Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) is a tool for ensuring that equality, social inclusion and community cohesion issues are considered when drawing up policies or proposals which affect the delivery of services and the employment practice of the Trust.

Equality Impact Assessments help:

• Determine how Trust policies and practice, or new proposals, will impact or affect different communities  Groups , especially those groups or communities who experience inequality, discrimination, social exclusion or disadvantage. 
• Measure whether policies or proposals will have a negative, neutral, or positive effect on different communities.
• Make decisions about current and future services and practice in fuller knowledge and understanding of the possible outcomes for different communities or customer groups. 
• Develop ways of monitoring and reviewing the effects of new or changing policies or proposals if  as and went  they are introduced.

Why do Equality Impact Assessments?

We are required to carry out equality impact assessments because:

• There is a legal requirement to do so in relation to race, disability and gender 
• They are a tool to eliminate institutional discrimination
• They are helpful in identifying gaps and make improvements to services
• They help avoid continuing or adopting harmful policies or procedures
• They help you to make better decisions
• They will help you to identify how you can make your services more accessible and appropriate
• They will help the Trust to become a better employer

To view the Equality Impact Assessments for the Trust please click here