PSO 2800 - Inside Time

PSO 2800 Annexes – Page 52RACE EQUALITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTSTO BE COMPLETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER 5 ANDANNEXES 4, 5, 6 AND 7 OF PSO 2800The purpose of this template is to help establishments determine whetherfunctions, policies or practices relating to service delivery are relevant to raceequality and to give guidance on how to conduct full impact assessments if itis clear that the function, policy or practice is relevant to race equality.SECTION 1Initial screeningThe first stage of conducting a Race Equality Impact Assessment is to screenthe function, policy or practice to assess it‟s relevance to race equality 3 . Thiswill indicate whether a full impact assessment is required.This first section is required if you are assessing a local function, policy orpractice not included in the list of functions, policies or practices in Annex 3 orif you are making amendments to existing local functions, policies orpractices, or if you are issuing new instructions locally or devising new localpolicies.Initial Screening template1. Aims and Purpose2. Impact. Use this space to describe what impact the function,policy or practice has or, in the case of revisions/ new instructions,will have on staff, prisoners, visitors or others.3 Relevance to Race Equality – For the purposes of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act, „relevance‟ means „having implications forthe general duty (to eliminate unlawful discrimination; promote equality of opportunity and promote good relations between differentracial groups). Any function, policy or practice that involves the public (in the Prison Service‟s case this will mainly be in relation toprisoners), including staff, or has consequences for them should be assessed as being relevant to the general duty. Further guidancecan be obtained on the Commission for Racial Equality‟s website: www.cre.gov.uk.Issue No. 264 issue date 25/09/06