Civil Contingencies Act 2004 amendment to include Integration Joint Boards - consultation: Government response

Annex A - Consultation Question

The Scottish Government intends to pass legislation that will include Integration Joint Boards as Category 1 responders under Schedule 2 of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Do you, or the organisation that you represent, envisage this change to have any significant wider impacts or unintended consequences under the Equality Act 2010 including the Fairer Scotland Duty? These include but are not limited to protected characteristics of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender reassignment, religion or belief, pregnancy or maternity, low income, low wealth or living or growing-up in areas of deprivation. Please consider these for:

• yourself,
• your organisation,
• people who use health and social care services,
• people who work in the health and social care sector, or,
• any other persons or organisations in the wider health and social care sector?