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Equality impact assessments

Introduction

Improving Service delivery and employment practice

Equality and Community Cohesion Impact Assessment or Equality Impact Assessments are an important part of our commitment to promote equality of opportunity for all Calderdale citizens.

Calderdale’s citizens are diverse in many respects, across factors such as race, faith, culture, language, age, sexual orientation, physical and mental capacity and many others. These differences often mean that our customers have diverse needs in relation to the services we provide. As an employer, service provider and regulatory body, the Council needs to consider diversity when developing, delivering and reviewing policies and services to ensure we meet the needs of all our citizens. Equality Impact Assessments provide a systematic process to doing this and therefore will help to improve service delivery and employment practice.

The need to undertake Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) arises from the following pieces of legislation:

• The Race Relations Amendment Act 2000,
• Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and
• The Equality Act 2006.

We also have an obligation to comply with Regulations on Sexual Orientation and Religion or Belief, which were introduced in 2003.  The Council applies this process to issues of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age. The Council are also committed to undertake EIAs to achieve further levels of the Equality Standard for Local Government

As part of this process the Council has to publish details of completed EIAs.  A summary of each completed EIA will be added here over the coming months and years as and when EIAs are completed.

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