Equality and human rights mainstreaming: equality impact assessment
This equality impact assessment (EQIA) results report provides a summary of the key findings from the detailed work undertaken to assess potential equality impacts of the equality and human rights mainstreaming strategy, action plan and toolkit.
Conclusion
The toolkit is designed to have positive impacts across all protected characteristics for public sector staff users, with particular benefits for disabled staff, those with caring responsibilities, and staff from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The main potential barriers relate to digital accessibility and workplace technical restrictions, all of which have mitigation strategies in place. The toolkit's design principles ensure that the professional development resource itself models good equality practice in its accessibility and inclusivity, while fostering better relations between different groups through shared learning and understanding of equality issues.