Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

Age
Sexual Orientation
Gender
Religion and
Belief
The time that a person has existed since birth.
Attraction you feel towards people of the
opposite sex, same sex or both.
An individual's self-conception as being male or
female or transgender.
A clear belief system, a profound belief affecting
the way of life or view of the world
SWBTB (2/10) 037 (d)
The Equal Pay Act 1970
The Equality Act 2006
Employment Equality (Age)
Regulations 2006
The Employment Equality (sexual
orientation) Regulations 2003
Civil Partnership 2005
The Gender Act 2004
The Gender Recognition Act April
2005
Gender Duty 2007
The Employment Equality (Religion
or Belief) Regulations 2003
Aims
Why should I carry out an EIA?
First and foremost an EIA allows you to find out whether your policy or service has an
adverse or potential adverse impact on different equality groups. The EIA process allows
you to assess whether your services, policies or functions are discriminating directly or
indirectly.
Very importantly EIAs allow the Trust to establish excellent outcomes for its diverse
communities and address existing or potential inequalities which may result from its
services, policies or functions.
• Indirect discrimination: Having policies or practices in place that applies to all
employees however they could disadvantage people.
• Direct discrimination: treating staff or workers or job applicants less favourably
than others because they belong to a particular equality group.
When should an impact assessment be undertaken?
Equality impact assessment should start at the same time as the process of a review of an
existing or proposal for new service, policy or function commences: i.e. when considering
the aims, objectives and implementation.
Once the policy, service or function requiring an equality impact assessment has been
approved and implemented, it should be monitored to ensure the intended outcome is
being achieved. Any concerns about the way it is working can then be addressed.
For existing policies, functions and service, an equality impact assessment should be
undertaken when the policy, etc, is formally reviewed. An assessment should be carried
out on all policies every three years.
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