Equality Impact Assessments, 2011-2012
The Equality Act (2010) places a legal duty on all public
sector organisations to pay due regard to the need to eliminate
discrimination and promote equality with regard to race, disability
and gender. For
those decisions identified as having a high relevance to
equality, an assessment must be made of the potential for them to
affect equality between different groups.
High quality information about
the equality impact of savings proposals is necessary to enable
budget decisions to be taken in an informed, fair and transparent
way. At a time of significant financial pressure this is essential
to maintaining the Council’s commitment to tackling inequality and
disadvantage, as well as fulfilling the authority’s legal
duties.
Budget proposals 2011-12, EqIAs
These are the equality impact assessments for the budget
proposal for 2011-12. These Equality Impact Assessments have been
undertaken to enable us to understand the impact the savings
proposals may have on equality of different sections of our
community.
The equality impact assessments relate to specific
proposals and should be read in conjunction with the
Budget 2011-12 document pack for the cabinet meeting on
Wednesday, February 9.