ECC40a
Essex County Council Impact
Assessment Form Section 2
Title of service being assessed
Directorate
Name and role of officer completing this assessment
Contact Telephone Number
Date Assessment Completed
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Young Carers Strategy
Schools, Children and Families
Michael O'Brien
01245436772
Ongoing
1. Which equality strands have you included in your data collection/ analysis and
consultations?
Race
Disability
Age
Gender
Sexual orientation
Religion
2. What are the key findings/ observations resulting from the data/ consultations? Please
include all findings that demonstrate inequality…You may wish to record inequality issues
for additional groups (for example rural isolation, financially disadvantaged etc) please do
this using box g.
a. Race
b. Age
c. Sexual Orientation
d. Disability
e. Gender
f. Religion
g. Other
3.a Within our Comprehensive Equality Policy, we commit to uphold our public duty to
promote equality of opportunity. No member of the public, service user, elected member,
employee, volunteer, agency worker, contractor or staff working with partner
organisations will be unlawfully discriminated against because of race, gender, disability,
religion or belief, sexual orientation, or age. Have you found any evidence that any aspect
of this service, its policies or delivery conflicts with the ECC Comprehensive Equality
Policy? Please list any aspect and summarise reason.(Full details of the Comprehensive
Equality Policy can be found by following this link.)
Aspect
Brief description of issue
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Assessment Form Section 2
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3b.You will see from the ECC Comprehensive Equalities Scheme quote above that we have a duty to
promote equal opportunities and promote good relations between community groups as well as
eliminate discrimination. Please list below any opportunities to promote equal opportunities or
good community relations within your review area.
Equality Group
Opportunity
4. You now need to split the issues resulting from your consultations etc into two groups.
Those where the adverse impact is justifiable or legitimate and those where the adverse
impact needs to be addressed. Consider issues in each strand in turn and decide whether
they are justifiable or legitimate. List the justifiable/legitimate issues in section 4a and the
remaining issues in section 4b. You will need to provide the reasons why the adverse
impact is justifiable or legitimate. If the reason an impact can not be addressed is purely
financial they should remain in the 4b as financial issues will be taken into account during
the action planning stage of this EIA. (Please add rows if necessary)
4a . Justifiable/ Legitimate Issues
Equality Adverse impacts and/or
Reason why
Mitigation Opportunity
Group
inequalities in policy or
justifiable/legitimate
service delivery
4b. Adverse impacts and/or inequalities in policy or service delivery that need to be resolved.
It is likely that you will have more than one possible solution for each issue
a. Race
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
b. Age
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
c. Sexual Orientation
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
d. Disability
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
e. Gender
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
f. Religion
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
g. Other
Adverse Impact and/or inequality
Possible Solutions
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Impact Assessment Form Section 2
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5. You now need to complete the action plan. You need to prioritise the work that needs to be done. If you have found any adverse
impact or discrimination that is illegal you must address these immediately and therefore they will be top priority in your action plans.
The notes for guidance will help you to prioritise your other actions. If there are areas which you feel need to be looked at in more
detail then the resulting action may be an additional EIA focussing on a specific area of concern.
IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Please list the actions that you need to take as a result of this assessment.
Issue Identified
1
2
3
4
5
6
Issues taken from
4a, 4b
Action Required –
agreed solution
Name of service /unit
plan in which action
will be included
Officers
Details of Cost –
responsible –
inc. Resource &
Directorate Lead financial
and Action Lead
By when
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Further EIAs Required
Subject
Planned Date
Lead Officer
Action Officer
This action plan needs to be agreed with your Director and Service Manager and actions included in the appropriate service or unity
plans.
Signature of Executive Director/
Director…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Signature of Service Manager……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
Please submit this form to the equalities team: [email protected]