Transcript Equality and Diversity Equality Impact Assessments

LCCS
Equality Impact
Assessments
www.yor-ok.org.uk/equalities
Charlotte Breen, Children's Trust
Unit, May 2009
Single Equality Scheme
Overview
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Context
Examples of Best Practice
Partners
Equality Impact Assessments (EIA’s)
– Standard EIAs & Enhanced EIAs
• Community Engagement – consultation
- Data
• Support and Training
Equalities – Fair Outcomes
• Legislation
• Inspection –
Collation
• Aspiration
• Services
• Staff
• Communities
6 Strands
• Gender, Race, Disability
• Sexuality, Faith, Age
• Vulnerability
Best Practice – Library
(on Yorok website)
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Documents work targeted at equality
and diversity
Offers opportunity to celebrate
outstanding examples of best practice
and perhaps be used for publicity.
All examples of ‘best practice’ to
Bernie Flanagan
Partners
• LCCS provides appropriate support to:
• Schools
• Commissioning
– Equalities central to commissioning brief
– Equalities duties ‘passed on’ to providers
Equality Impact Assessment
• Identify discrimination or adverse
impact;
• Strategy, policy, delivery method;
• Identifies challenges;
• Actions – ongoing or new;
• Reasonable Adjustment.
Summary of EIAs
DIRECTORATE EQUALITY SCHEME
Directorate EIAs
2 x Annually
Standard EIAs to be completed
on all activities within the
directorate
ENHANCED EIA following a Standard EIA –
Nominated by Service to DMT
All NEW initiatives
MUST have an
ENHANCED EIA
Equality Impact Assessments
• Directorate EIA’s
• Access to recreational activities for disabled
children & young people and adults – Jess Haslam
• Communication with children, young people and
adults – Alistair Gourlay
• Enhanced EIA’s - Heather Johnson
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Standard EIA’s
• Annually for ALL activities within a
service
• Now and in future Service Planning
• Common format – team meeting
• Cascaded down service arms
Degree of cascade – Service Arm decision
Size, Focus, Impact, Risk.
Standard EIA’s
• Results collated (Carolyn Ford)
– Reviewed by DMT
– Common themes; Key Issues – Directorate
EIA
– Public Documents
Standard Equality Impact
Assessments
Summary
Summarise the key issues and actions (this bit
will be made public).
Actions should include continuing actions and
new actions.
Issue
Summary / Reason for Issue
RAG Status
identified
RED
AMBER
GREEN
Action
Short /
Medium
or Long
Term
Summary / Description of Action
Equality Strand/s
Enhanced EIA’s
• Enhanced Equality Impact
Assessments when:
– introducing new or making significant
changes to services or strategies
– or there is significant impact or risk
(Standard EIA act as screening tool)
Consultation - Data
• Integral to all EIAs
• Key action from the EIA
• Use previous (but recent) consultation – own
or others – local, national.
• Data – know who working with to know
impact
• Safeguards
• Share the data which has been collated
• http://www.yor-ok.org.uk/yorsay
Support
Equalities Network Group
Representative from each service arm
Staff Reference Groups
Equality Strand Coordinators
Corporate Equalities Team
Evie Chandler – Heather Johnson
Corporate Training
Disability Equality Training
Jess Haslam
• Web based level 1 training first, which gives a basic
introduction to this subject. This takes 15 minutes only and can
be found on: http://www.disabilitytrainingyork.org/
• Level 2 training will come to your team/service to deliver the
training with parent from CANDI or Disabled Young People’s
Champion and will cover the:
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the social model of disability
language to use/not use
reasonable adjustments you may need to make
scenarios
how to draw up a disability equality scheme or plan to contribute to
a single equality scheme.
YorOK Website
www.yor-ok.org.uk/equalities
Equality and Diversity (Front Page)
Six Strands
Equality Impact Assessments
 Standard EIAs
 Enhanced EIAs
 Consultation
 Example EIAs
 Risks / Priorities / Evidence
 Commissioned or partner Services
 Multi-Agency Settings
Library of ‘best practice’
Training