Equality Impact Assessments
An Equality Impact Assessment is a way of deciding whether an existing or proposed policy, procedure, practice or service does (or may) have an “adverse impact” on some sections of society. The “adverse impact” may often be the result of not taking into account the needs of women or men, black and ethnic minority groups, disabled people, people’s religion or belief, sexual orientation or age.
Developed under the auspicies of the Race Equality Scheme, all directorates identified a "champion" who attended training on Impact Assessments. As part of the training, an assessment tool was developed. For each function, the leads:
- specified whether the aims of the function/policy were clearly stated
- stated which of the three aspects of the general duty was relevant
- stated whether there is reason to believe that this is an impact
- specified any known inequalities
- provided a priority level
A number of equality impact assessments on policies and services have been carried out since 2005. Assessments will continue to be carried out on new policies and services, as they are developed and over time on all other existing policies and services.
Guidance and training have been, and will continue to be, provided to employees who are responsible for undertaking Equality Impact Assessments. In particular, new training on Equality Impact Assessments has been commissioned for 2008/09 to train a greater number of “champions” on how to undertake impact assessments.
The results of equality impact assessments are collected and stored electronically. This information is subject to further analysis as appropriate. Regular reports on the outcomes from equality impact assessments are received by the NHS Brent Equalities, Diversity & Human Rights Committee and is published on the Trust’s internet.
Below are the three core documents that are used in writing Equality Impact Assessments (EQIA):
Please find below the most recent Equality Impact Assessments that have been carried out by the Trust.
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