Publication - Advice and guidance
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leadership Board: delivery progress report 3 - February 2025
The third progress report (LB(25)03-03) assessing the delivery of the strategic actions found within the mental health and wellbeing strategy and accompanying delivery plan and workforce action plan, including a summary of identified risks and issues.
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’.
Strategic EQIAs
Complete & Ongoing: 53%
In Progress: 21%
EQIA Needed: 15%
Unknown/Not Required: 12%
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.