Care home and 'care at home' service providers - FOISA extension: consultation - easy read version

Impact Assessments

When the Government makes an important change, we have to look at how this will affect people. This is called an Impact Assessment.

We will do an Impact Assessment on how Freedom of Information law might affect businesses and charities providing care, by making them follow new duties.

We will also do Impact Assessments looking at how making Freedom of Information law apply to these services will affect people’s rights and how fairly they are treated.

These would look at data protection, human rights and equality. Also, look at experiences of different people in society.

Question 10: How do you think changes to the Freedom of Information laws will affect businesses and charities? Please give us your thoughts below:

Question 11: How do you think making the Freedom of Information laws apply to care providers will affect people’s rights?