3. Equality Impact Assessments: Evaluating the potential of commissioning decisions on diverse groups to identify and mitigate and negative impacts.
Coventry’s approach
All commissioning/recommissioning activity and quality assurance policy/procedure is accompanied by Equality Impact Assessments. Our Equality Impact Assessments consider three main themes:
- impact of implementation of decisions on people with protected characteristics,
- health inequality impacts,
- impact of digital exclusion.
Strengths and opportunities
The Council's well-developed equalities team plays a pivotal role in supporting these activities, ensuring that training and development in equalities and EIAs are effectively delivered. Adult Social Care enhances corporate initiatives through various activities, including the widely available Social Graces training.
While data availability has seen significant improvements, there remains an opportunity to develop evidence in specific areas such as gender and sexual orientation. Additionally, there is potential to enhance data relating to intersectionality, such as ethnicity and disability.