EQUALITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS 2010 - Falkirk Council

ORGANISATION SIGN OFF DATA
Person carrying out impact assessment
Paul Donnelly Service manager
For the following questions, tick areas of equality relevance (tick boxes will refer to
equality strands – Race, Gender, Disability, Age, Sexual Orientation, Religion/Belief,
None)
Please highlight the strand(s) where there is risk of a potential or an actual adverse
impact in relation to the policy (Yes/No)
Race - /No
Gender - /No
Disability - /No
Age - /No
Sexual Orientation - /No
Religion/Belief - /No
Please highlight your assessment of this impact (High/Medium/Low/None)
Race - None
Gender - None
Disability – None
Age - None
Sexual Orientation - None
Religion/Belief - None
Conclusions and recommendations for amendments to the policy.
a. Please state who/which group or committee considered the options and
the decision on what action would be taken.
b. If a number of options were considered, summarise these and the reason
for selecting one option over any others.
c. If no further action is required as a result of the EQIA please explain.
a. This framework was considered by the Social work committee and agreement was
reached to implement it.
b. Not applicable
c.No further action is required as a result of the EQIA as there is no adverse impact
attached to this framework.
Timescales for implementation
The framework will be implemented in September 2010 to coincide with the introduction
of a pilot Intake service within community care.
Methods of publication (identify how/where the policy will be made available and who to
– i.e. employees, service users)
The policy will be made available to the general public and all relevant groups. The
policy will be available on Falkirk council’s website. A leaflet has been produced which
will be given to the general public and it will be available in all social work offices within
the Falkirk council area.
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