Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs)
Increasing opportunities for all and raising the life chances of the most disadvantaged are at the heart of our commitments to make Hackney a better place and to enable a good quality of life for all. The Council is also required by law to promote equality, eradicate unfair discrimination and promote diversity.
As a community leader, service provider and employer we put equality and diversity first. To ensure we deliver on our commitment and statutory obligations we have a Corporate Equality Plan and a related set of equality tools to improve the quality of life for all the people we serve.
Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of our key tools for improving quality of life for the people of Hackney. It identifies the potential different impacts (both positive and negative) a policy, function or service may have on people from different groups within our community.
Through the EIA process, officers and teams will obtain a better understanding of how their policies, functions and services can affect different groups within the community By assessing the effect of a policy/ function or service, we can understand its:
- Capacity to promote equality
- Capacity to reduce inequality
- Adverse effects on equality
- Potential unlawful discrimination
Once officers have identified these effects, they build actions into the project to enhance the positive impacts on equality and minimise any negative effect identified. As a result, officers and the Council will improve the quality of our work and contribute to better outcomes for the people of Hackney
Key Documents:
EIA guidance (2.5MB)
Initial EIA form (124KB)- Full EIA form (153KB)
Completed Equality Impact Assessments attached:
- Access to Services (131KB)
- Carers’ Strategy (129KB)
- Choice Base Lettings (164KB)
- Common Assessment Framework (158KB)
- Community Strategy (79.5KB)
- Customer Care Strategy (138KB)
- Hackney Advice Strategy (487KB)
- Hackney Marshes (124KB)
- Health and Safety Enforcement Nail Treatment Bars (45KB)
- Local Area Agreement (172KB)
- Local Development Framework (197KB)
- Parks Strategy Initial EIA (133KB)
- People and Organisational Development Strategy (161KB)
- Procurement Strategy (281KB)
- Reshaping Children’s Social Care (162KB)
- Revenues and Benefits (180KB)
- Road Casualty Inequalities Demonstration Project (49KB)
- Supporting a Diverse Workforce (83.5KB)
- Youth Offending Team (149KB)
Increasing opportunities for all is the key aim of the Council’s equality and diversity work. The Council’s Equality and Diversity policy underpins the our commitment to the agenda of equality and diversity. The Audit commission has judged Hackney Council to be a three star strongly improving council. This echoes what our residents are telling us. The percentage of residents, who think that the way the Council runs things is getting better is significantly higher that any other London borough.
Page updated: 5 Sep 2008