Equality Impact Assessment - 1 Day

• Understand what Equality Impact Assessments (EQIA) (EIA) mean and how they will work for and benefit your organisation
• Explore ways that results from EIA can inform decision making and practically improve services and workforce representation
• Identify any issues or concerns that might hinder you in conducting EIA and use our facilitator to resolve them

• Determine how we can use EIA to prioritise work to improve service delivery and employment practices
• Be aware of relevant law that underpins impact assessment
• Roll your sleeves up and have a go with practice exercises so you go away knowing how to compete an equality impact assessment

• Ensure we are meeting our customers' and colleagues diverse needs in the best ways
• Ensure we are fully meeting our legal obligations
• Identify any unintended impacts or "institutional" barriers that affect individuals and communities adversely and deal with them appropriately
• Identify real opportunities to improve equality and participation for internal and external customers

• Tailor service delivery to meet real and different needs and preferences from an informed position
• Improve employee relations by understanding and meeting diverse employee needs
• Be confident in using equality impact assessment as a business tool

• Background to EIA’s
• Institutionalised ‘ism’s’ - how to identify them and deal with them
• The benefits of undertaking an Equality Impact Assessment
• What is it?
• Why do it?
• What are the real benefits for our customers and us?
• Legal Overview
• Main pieces of legislation that apply to impact assessments – the bits you really need to know
• Discrimination - overview
• The process – step-by-step – exactly what you need to do
• Screening for likely impact
• One step further – partial assessment
• A full impact assessment
• Methods of data collection
• Consultations
• Monitoring and publication of results

• Process for Establishing Needs
• How to determine adverse impact
• Identifying functional areas and policies; ensuring you impact assess at the right level to maximise results
• Putting it into practice
• A chance to look at real case studies of EIA’s conducted by other organisations
• Practical exercise to try out the EIA process; use one or more of your organisations’ policies and begin to work through the EIA process
• Action Planning - key priorities for action in my area

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1 day

Folder, workbook, handouts, pen and certificate of attendance

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Up to 12 people

Righttrack programmes are energetic, exciting and highly participative, which create an impact and motivate participants to learn and embrace change

We utilise a blend of learning methods: practice sessions, group workshops, scenario-driven learning, assignments, self managed learning, shared group learning, accelerated learning and structured group learning