Equality Impact Assessments

Rotherham MBC is carrying out equality impact assessments on our services and functions, policies and procedures as part of the work on the Equality Standard for Local Government. This includes existing policies, new policies or those which are being changed.

What are equality impact assessments?

They are a tool to ensure that policies, services and procedures do not have an adverse impact on a particular group of people due to their gender, sexuality, religion or belief, race, age, gender identity or because they are disabled people or have caring responsibilities.  Or in the case of new or changing policies, a potential adverse impact. In other words, are our policies and procedures meeting our customers' needs and meeting our legal obligations. The idea is to identify any unintended impacts or institutional barriers that affect individuals and communities detrimentally.

Additionally the equality impact assessment considers if there will be any potential positive impacts of the policy or service on groups of people in Rotherham, or any ways in which the policy will actively promote equality or good community relations.

The results of the equality impact assessment are used to set equality objectives that become part of business plans, leading to improvements to services and employment practices. They might also show that we need more information about our customers and service users, for example through monitoring or consultation.

We have developed a toolkit for carrying out our equality impact assessments and there is a three-year schedule across all Directorates:

 Functions and Policies Schedule (324kb) 

  EIA Toolkit V2 (144kb)


Completed equality impact assessments

For each of the Council's Directorates listed below we will be adding a document with the equality impact assessments that have been completed so far. We will be updating the documents regularly, adding more assessments as they are finalised. You can read a summary of each equality impact assessment by clicking on the name of the policy or procedure from the index list in each document.

Adult Services (now part of Neighbourhoods and Adult Services)
 eia summaries as (141kb)


Chief Executive's Directorate
 eia summaries cxd (123kb)


Children and Young People's Services
 eia summaries cyps (404kb)


Environment and Development Services
 eia summaries eds (415kb)


Financial Services
 eia summaries fs (45kb)


Neighbourhoods/2010
 eia summaries neighbourhoods/2010 (261kb)


RBT
 eia summaries rbt (49kb)

Strategic Human Resources (now part of Chief Executive's)

eia summaries hr (113kb)


   Equalities and Diversity home page