Child Protection Improvement Programme: equality impact assessment record

Positive

Negative

None

Reasons for your decision

Yes

The Programme has been designed, inter alia, to promote and disseminate improved practice responses from both children's and universal services professionals to the adverse circumstances experienced by children and young people in relation to neglect. Further, the Programme seeks to improve the quality of the management information derived from extant data and evidence and the inspections process to improve learning and feedback within the system and to efficiently manage the allocation of resources in order that we achieve the most positive impacts and outcomes for children and young people in respect of the wellbeing indicators.

Yes

The Programme's core objective is strategically aligned to the delivery of national performance indicators designed to promote equality of opportunity, diminish the effects of inequalities and progressively remove structural inequality from Scottish society.

Yes

The Programme has a distinct focus on the promotion of child wellbeing and on the alignment of practice responses to meeting the individual needs children experiencing wellbeing and/or child protection concerns.

Yes

In the context of the Programme, consideration will consistently be given to the need to prioritise service responses that are tailored to the individual wellbeing needs of the children involved.

In relation to the revision of existing legislation on child cruelty, attention has been paid to the potentially disproportionate impact of that legislation on mothers, as opposed to the fathers of neglected or abused children, particularly in the context of homes characterised by the experience of domestic abuse.

Consideration will be given in the leadership and workforce development aspects of the programme to ensure that activities to promote empowerment of the workforce and the authoritative exercise of clinical judgement do not have adverse impacts in relation to sex or gender identity.

Yes

As above.

Yes

Yes

The aim of the Programme is to deliver consistently good service responses to children experiencing wellbeing needs/child protection concerns, irrespective of their pregnancy status.

Yes

Yes

Yes

As above, the aim of the Programme is to deliver consistently good service responses to children experiencing wellbeing needs/child protection concerns, irrespective of their LGBTI status.

Yes

As above

Yes

Yes

As above, the aim of the Programme is to deliver consistently good service responses to children and families, irrespective of the LGBTI status of either the child or young person, or their parent/carer.

Yes

As above

Yes

Yes

Our aim is to promote equality of access to high quality support and services irrespective of race.

Yes

Yes

Yes

The programme aims to promote the delivery of effective high quality support services irrespective of religion or belief. It is recognised that children and young people from minority ethnic communities can have specific vulnerabilities associated with their culture which create barriers to disclosing or reporting abuse, for example, blackmail connected with shame and dishonour can be used to control victims. Cultural sensitivities can lead to an unwillingness to discuss or recognise abuse, neglect and harm. The Programme will consider the interface between universal and children's services activity, including relevant thresholds for intervention in the context of neglect. Attention will be paid to how responses are driven by mechanisms for identifying the prevalence of neglect and professionals' assessments of children in need.

Yes

As above

Yes

N/A