Equality Duty Revised Draft Regulations Analysis of Consultation Findings

Footnotes

1. Where such proportions are given, they refer to the proportion of those respondents who stated "yes", "no" or "don't know".

2. Where reference is made to a perceived impact on equality, this should be taken to cover equality and / or equalities work in each case.

3. Scottish Government (2010) Consultation on Public Sector Equality Duty Specific Duties Analysis of Responses Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

4. Scottish Government (2011) Public Sector Equality Duty Draft Regulations and Order Analysis of Responses to the Scottish Government Consultation on Public Sector Equality Duty Draft Regulations and Order Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

5. Table does not sum to 100 due to rounding

6 CoSLA and ACPOS, although not covered by the Regulations as specific individual organisations, were included with those covered on the basis that their responses relate to a number of organisations named in the Regulations.

7. www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/01/1910

8. These proportions, throughout the report, are of those who ticked "yes", "no", or "don't know".

9. Where such responses are identified throughout this report, it should be noted that this required an element of judgement. In each case, comments were only included where they related clearly to the substance of a specific question. They were only identified as inferring "yes" or "no" when agreement or disagreement appeared clear.

10. These proportions, throughout the report, are of those who addressed the question.

11. Where references are made in the report to additional comments, these may include comments from respondents who specified "yes", "no" or "don't know", as well as from those who provided comments alone at this question, or made comments elsewhere.

12. Where references are made in the qualitative material to proportions of respondents, these are proportions of those respondents who made comments.

13. Where reference is made in the report to a perceived impact on equality, this should be taken to cover equality and / or equalities work in each case.

14. Public Services Commission (2011) Commission on the Future Delivery of Public Services Edinburgh: Scottish Government

15. Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound.