Equality impact assessment: health and social care statutory guidance refresh

5. Stage 4: Decision making and monitoring

Identifying and establishing any required mitigating action

Have positive or negative impacts been identified for any of the equality groups?

No negative impacts identified, however various potential risks have been identified. There are circumstances, if a refresh of the statutory guidance is completed in an unsatisfactorily or incomplete manner, in which negative impacts may arise.

Is the policy directly or indirectly discriminatory under the Equality Act 2010?

No.

If the policy is indirectly discriminatory, how is it justified under the relevant legislation?

N/A

If not justified, what mitigating action will be undertaken?

N/A

Describing how Equality Impact analysis has shaped the policy making process

The Equality Impact analysis has shaped the work programme by:

• ensuring consideration of the intersecting inequalities that people face are reflected in the planning stage;
• providing a space for reflection on possible risks and negative impacts that may arise from the risks;
• enhancing knowledge of the inequalities that people may face and the intersection the proposed work may have;
• providing more evidence for the important of appropriately joining the proposed work programme with ongoing related work on equalities;
• providing further incentive to put equalities at the centre of the desired outcomes of the work programme.

Monitoring and Review

The programme of work has been subject to feedback from the short life working group throughout the duration of the project. Further feedback and scrutiny will be gathered through the wider, public consultation.