Gender policy coherence: annual statement - easy read

Making decisions that affect women and girls

The Advisory Council told us that women and girls must be supported to:

• be involved in making decisions that affect them
• take part in designing policies and services so they work well for them

To support this to happen we have:

• done research about how to involve women and girls in designing policies and services

• made new guidance, standards and ways of working to support people to take part

• trained government staff to better include women and girls in designing policies and services
• started delivering the Equality Data Improvement Programme that:

• collects information on women and other equality groups like disabled people or people from a minority ethnic background

• uses the information to help people in government understand how policies and decisions affect women and girls