Equality Impact Assessment (EQUIA) is a method or tool for assessing the effects, or impacts of a Council policy or function on removing barriers to equality. Research shows that the way organisations do things can have unintentional negative effects on groups of citizens – ‘institutional discrimination’.
EQUIA is a tool for designing out discrimination and removing barriers to equal access and outcomes for people who are members of equality groups. It helps us to change our thinking and to ‘mainstream’ equality. This means when we plan a new service, for example, or review an existing one, that we think as a matter of course about the range of people who might want to use that service, and what barriers to access we might unintentionally be creating.
To view the Council's Equality Impact Assessment, reports click on the links below.
Chief Executive Department
Licensing - Full Report
Recruitment and Selection - Full Report
Direct and Care Services
Home Care Services - Summary Report
Home Care Services - Full Report
Development and Regeneration Services
City Plan 2 - Full Report
Local Housing Strategy 2003-8 - Full Report
Financial Services
Financial Services - Full Report
Education and Social Work Services
Supporting Children and Young People with additional Support Needs in relation to English as an Additional Language and Bilingual Learners - Full Report