LCCS Equality Impact Assessments yor-ok.uk/equalities

1. Equality & Diversity LCCSEquality Impact Assessmentswww.yor-ok.org.uk/equalities Charlotte Breen, Children's Trust Unit, May 2009

2. Single Equality Scheme Overview • Context • Examples of Best Practice • Partners • Equality Impact Assessments (EIA’s) • Standard EIAs & Enhanced EIAs • Community Engagement – consultation - Data • Support and Training

3. Equalities – Fair Outcomes • Legislation • Inspection – Collation • Aspiration • Services • Staff • Communities 6 Strands • Gender, Race, Disability • Sexuality, Faith, Age • Vulnerability

4. Best Practice – Library (on Yorok website) • Documents work targeted at equality and diversity • Offers opportunity to celebrate outstanding examples of best practice and perhaps be used for publicity. • All examples of ‘best practice’ to Bernie Flanagan

5. Partners • LCCS provides appropriate support to: • Schools • Commissioning • Equalities central to commissioning brief • Equalities duties ‘passed on’ to providers

6. Equality Impact Assessment • Identify discrimination or adverse impact; • Strategy, policy, delivery method; • Identifies challenges; • Actions – ongoing or new; • Reasonable Adjustment.

7. Summary of EIAs DIRECTORATE EQUALITY SCHEME Directorate EIAs Standard EIAs to be completed All NEW initiatives 2 x Annually on all activities within the MUST have an directorate ENHANCED EIA ENHANCED EIA following a Standard EIA – Nominated by Service to DMT

8. Equality Impact Assessments • Directorate EIA’s • Access to recreational activities for disabled children & young people and adults – Jess Haslam • Communication with children, young people and adults – Alistair Gourlay • Enhanced EIA’s - Heather Johnson http://intranet.york.gov.uk/docsinf/navigate_tree.asp?intnavid=3456

9. Standard EIA’s • Annually for ALLactivities within a service • Now and in future Service Planning • Common format – team meeting • Cascaded down service arms Degree of cascade – Service Arm decision Size, Focus, Impact, Risk.

10. Standard EIA’s • Results collated (Carolyn Ford) • Reviewed by DMT • Common themes; Key Issues – Directorate EIA • Public Documents

11. Summary Summarise the key issues and actions (this bit will be made public). Actions should include continuing actions and new actions. Issueidentified Summary / Reason for Issue RAG Status RED AMBER GREEN Action Short / Medium or Long Term Summary / Description of Action Equality Strand/s Standard Equality Impact Assessments

12. Enhanced EIA’s • Enhanced Equality Impact Assessments when: • introducing new or making significant changes to services or strategies • or there is significant impact or risk (Standard EIA act as screening tool)

13. Consultation - Data • Integral to all EIAs • Key action from the EIA • Use previous (but recent) consultation – own or others – local, national. • Data – know who working with to know impact • Safeguards • Share the data which has been collated • http://www.yor-ok.org.uk/yorsay

14. Support Equalities Network Group Representative from each service arm Staff Reference Groups Equality Strand Coordinators Corporate Equalities Team Evie Chandler – Heather Johnson Corporate Training

15. Disability Equality Training Jess Haslam • Web based level 1 training first, which gives a basic introduction to this subject. This takes 15 minutes only and can be found on: http://www.disabilitytrainingyork.org/ • Level 2 training will come to your team/service to deliver the training with parent from CANDI or Disabled Young People’s Champion and will cover the: • the social model of disability • language to use/not use • reasonable adjustments you may need to make • scenarios • how to draw up a disability equality scheme or plan to contribute to a single equality scheme.

16. YorOK Website www.yor-ok.org.uk/equalities Equality and Diversity (Front Page) Six Strands Equality Impact Assessments  Standard EIAs  Enhanced EIAs  Consultation  Example EIAs  Risks / Priorities / Evidence  Commissioned or partner Services  Multi-Agency Settings Library of ‘best practice’ Training