Leadership Board - Fifth meeting: MHWB Strategy and Delivery Plan Progress Report

Equalities & Human Rights Monitoring

Equalities Impact Assessments (EQIAs)

We committed to ensuring EQIAs were completed for all Strategic Actions within the Delivery Plan. As the Strategic Actions are broad in nature, some policy leads have chosen to undertake separate EQIAs for sub-actions, rather than an overarching Strategic Action EQIA. We have therefore developed and agreed the following criteria for reporting:

• Where a Strategic action has an EQIA for all sub actions, it is recorded as ‘Complete and ongoing’.
• Where a Strategic action has EQIAs for at least half its sub actions, it is reported as ‘In progress’.
• Where a Strategic Action has EQIAs for below half its sub actions, it is reported as ‘EQIA needed’.
• Where a Strategic Action EQIA is for Board/Delivery Partner consideration or the action is not policy delivery based (e.g. data collection, statistical publication etc.), it is reported as ‘Unknown or not required’.

52% of EQIAs complete, 24% in progress, 12% EQIA needed and 12% not required or unknown.

52% of EQIAs complete, 24% in progress, 12% EQIA needed and 12% not required or unknown.

Summary of reasons for “EQIA needed”:

• Resource constraints: The initiation of the EQIA has been delayed due to limited resources, including staffing and time to carry out a thorough assessment.
• Changes to policy/project: The EQIA has not yet been initiated due to ongoing changes in the scope of the project which need to be clarified before assessment can begin, or work has paused.