Perinatal and infant mental health: equalities impact assessment

Stage 4: Decision making and monitoring

Identifying and establishing any required mitigating action

If, following the impact analysis, you think you have identified any unlawful discrimination - direct or indirect - you must consider and set out what action will be undertaken to mitigate the negative impact. You will need to consult your legal team in SGLD at this point if you have not already done so.

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

No negative impacts have been identified. The new policy sets out to support all women and families in Scotland and there are several actions being undertaken in the work of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board and the Perinatal and Early Years policy team at SG to ensure that 'at risk' groups are identified and specific measures put in place to support them.

Is the policy directly or indirectly discriminatory under the Equality Act 2010?^[68]

No

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

No

If not justified, what mitigating action will be undertaken?

n/a

Monitoring and Review

An Equalities group which reports to the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board has been convened and meets every 2 months to discuss embedding equalities in to policy and service development. The group will help to further identify and fill gaps in the evidence around inequalities in perinatal and infant mental health and inform any further mitigation required. Monitoring and evaluation will be embedded in to the work of this group, directed by the recommendations from Public Health Scotland and the Monitoring and Evaluation Group of the Programme Board.