Equality Impact Assessments
An Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) is a tool for assessing and consulting on the likely affect of the way the Council does its business for different groups of people. They help Councils identify the particular needs of different groups and aim to reduce the likelihood of discrimination. We undertake EQIAs to consider all equality issues, including:
- race
- gender
- disability
- age
- faith or belief
- sexual orientation
Each Service Unit has been asked to consider the likely impact of their key services from existing evidence 
(and /or link to the Equality Research Briefs). Service Units have been asked to identify priority actions to take over the coming three years and where appropriate develop appropriate ways of measuring progress. These then fed into each service units' annual business plan and inform our Fairness for All Scheme.
Here is a link to our Equality Impact Assessment timetable and below are completed EQIAs for each service:
ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES
- Carers Support Service
- Older Persons
- Personalisation & Efficiency of Adult Social Care
- Poole Addictions Community Team
- Poole Drug And Action Team (DAAT)
- Safeguarding Provision
- Workforce Planning Training and Development
BUILDING CONSULTANCY SERVICES
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE'S INTEGRATED SERVICES
- Early Years Specialist Report
- Education Awards
- Education Welfare Service
- Ensuring Every Child Has A School Place
- Exclusion and Reintegration
- Localities, Childcare, Children's Centes and Family Information Services
- Poole Parent Partnership Service
- Provision of SEN Support Services
- Services For Child Health And Disability Services
- Youth Services
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIAL CARE
- CYP Social Care Consultation
- Public Awareness and Information
- Recruit, assess and support Carers
- Referral process for Children and Young People’s Services Social Care
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Processes
- Services for Care Leavers
- Services for Children in Care
- Services for Children in Need, including Private Fostering, Adoption Support and Young Carers
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Workforce Development
- Working with Adopters
CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE'S STRATEGY, QUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT
- Action for Children Advocacy Service
- Children’s Services Commissioning
- Children’s Workforce Development
- Communications: Co-ordination of external relations and Children’s Services communications
- Complaints
- Quality Assurance and Improvement with Projects and Transformations
- Governor Services
- METAS – Minority, Ethnic and Traveller Achievement Service
- PE, School sport and learning outside the classroom
- Strategic Planning & Performance.
- Safeguarding Services
- Teenage Pregnancy
CULTURE & COMMUNITY LEARNING
- Adult Learning Services
- Arts Services
- Library Services
- Poole Museum Services - Acquisition and Disposal Policy
- Poole Museum Services
- Poole Museum Strategic Service Plan
CUSTOMER SERVICES & COMMUNICATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL & CONSUMER PROTECTION SERVICES
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Bailiffs Code of Practice and Debt Recovery Policy
- Benefits Service
- Corporate Procurement Services
- EQIA Collection of Council Tax and Non-domestic rates
- Income Team (Debtors)
- Insurance Services
- Internal Audit
- Medium Term Financial Plan
- Payments (Creditors Team)
- Treasury Management Strategy
HOUSING & COMMUNITY SERVICES
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Appendix to EQIA for Recruitment and Retention
- Employee First Project
- Employee Relations (Casework
- Employee Relations – Leave Arrangements
- ENIA Screening Tool
- Equal Pay
- Human Resources Unit Review – Business Transformation
- Managing Attendance & Sickness Policy
- Organisation Development & Training
- Payment of salaries and wages and Pensions administration
- Recruitment and Retention
ICT & BUSINESS SUPPORT
LEGAL & DEMOCRATIC SERVICES
- Civil Registration Services
- Elections and Electoral Registration
- Legal Advice to Council Service Units
- Local Land Charges
- Public access to democratic processes
- Support to and development of Elected Members
LEISURE SERVICES
PLANNING AND REGENERATION
- Development Management
- Front Office (Customer Interface)
- Planning Enforcement
- Planning Policy
- Revitalising our Town Centre (Twin Sails)
PROPERTY SERVICES
SAFER POOLE PARTNERSHIP
STRATEGY DIRECTORATE
- Corporate Complaints
- Corporate Performance
- Local Strategic Partnership Secretariat and Sustainable Community Strategy development
- Research And Consultation
TOURISM
TOWN CENTRE MANAGEMENT
TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
- Car Parks
- Community Transport
- Concessionary Travel
- Public Transport
- Road Safety
- Street Lighting Turn Off
If anyone would like to know more or ask about any of the published documents please contact Sue Newell by e-mail or on 01202 633035 in the first instance.
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