Equality impact assessment publication
Failure to publish Equality Impact Assessments alongside legislation and clarify their legal relationship with duties.
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Committee recommendation
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#26 - Publish Equality Impact Assessment and clarify legal relationship with Equality Act duties.
The Equality Impact Assessment should have been published alongside the Bill to assist parliamentary scrutiny; we look forward to seeing it published as soon as possible. We ask that the Government clarify in that document or elsewhere the intended legal relationship between the clause 18 duty on promoting the interests of disabled people and the anticipatory duty under...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Limited equality analysis of Winter Fuel Payment reform failed to assess broader health impacts
The Government conducted a very limited high-level equality analysis of WFP reform, estimating the impact on the number of pensioners in poverty. We heard repeatedly about the possible impacts on their health, as well. While this may be difficult to quantify, a fuller impact assessment, 83 considering the cumulative impact and broader impact of policies and the views...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#7 - Fifth report - Equality in the heart of democracy: A gender sensitive House of Commons
We note that the last Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) of IPSA’s Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs was published in 2017 and its intention to conduct an EIA alongside the next comprehensive review of the scheme, no later than 2024. We recommend that IPSA ensures the EIA is comprehensive and fully in line with the Equality and...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#33 - Require Government to clarify scale and rationale for planned prison education cuts and their impact
We expect the Government to urgently clarify the scale and rationale for any planned cuts to prison education budgets. It must set out how it plans to ensure that all prisons retain the funding necessary to deliver core education provision. The Ministry of Justice must also publish an assessment of the likely impact of these cuts on prisoner...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#4 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
The Treasury must provide Equality Impact Assessments for the Industrial Strategy and ‘New Deal’. These should include a Gender Beneficiary Assessment of investments from the industrial strategy to date, including receipts of grants, gender occupational composition of companies operating infrastructure contracts, innovation grants and training participants and outcomes. The Treasury should also undertake an economic growth assessment of...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Publish impact assessments for gender-specific programming cuts, no later than report response.
It is astonishing that the Government has made cuts to gender-specific programming without seemingly understanding the impacts on women and girls. The Government must publish impact assessments, as promised by the Minister, as soon as possible and no later than the response to this report. (Recommendation, Paragraph 79) 35
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terms: assessment, impact
Committee recommendation
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#11 - Publish annual impact assessments for ODA cuts, detailing rationale and alignment with aid objectives.
We recommend that the Government commits to publishing an impact assessment for every year in which cuts to ODA are implemented, including the 2026/27 financial year, and providing rationale for how these decisions align with the impact that UK aid aims to achieve. (Recommendation, Paragraph 39)
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terms: assessment, impact
Committee recommendation
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#29 - Third Report - Impact of COVID-19 on DCMS sectors: First Report
The Cultural Renewal Taskforce and working groups demonstrate a worrying lack of diversity of representation. To ensure that sectors remain accessible to all as they reopen, it is essential that all decisions and proposals by the Cultural Renewal Taskforce and its working groups are accompanied by full equality impact assessments and monitoring.
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#15 - Pause FCDO restructuring until staffing, skills, equalities, and ODA impact assessments are completed.
We call on the Government to pause the processes currently underway until the following actions have been completed: a. a structured assessment of staffing required to deliver the Government’s priorities both in the UK and in countries with a diplomatic mission, to be presented in a Workforce Plan for this spending review period; b. a thorough skills audit...
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terms: assessment, impact
Committee recommendation
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#8 - Fourth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus, disability and access to services: full Report
The Equality Act 2010’s Public Sector Equality Duty is intended to ensure public authorities have due regard, including in their decision making, policies and service delivery, to achieving the Act’s objectives, which include the elimination of discrimination against groups of people who share a protected characteristic. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published non-statutory technical guidance on...
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terms: equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#24 - 1st Report – The UK’s development partnership with Nigeria
The FCDO should ensure that equality impact assessments are systematically incorporated into future programming and funding decisions relating to Nigeria, which should be available to the Committee on request. (Recommendation, Paragraph 98)
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#23 - 1st Report – The UK’s development partnership with Nigeria
Without clear information on the design and accessibility of programmes, and without equality impact assessments being carried out routinely, we are unable to scrutinise fully the degree to which FCDO programming in Nigeria is targeted at: • women and girls; • children; • LGBTQ+ people; • Disabled people; • older people. (Conclusion, Paragraph 97) 48
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#3 - Government disregarded guidelines and hindered scrutiny of Bill through poor engagement
The Government has neither followed its own guidelines, nor engaged as productively as we would have liked with our Committee over this Bill. The interval between introduction and Second Reading was not long enough for proper preparation by Members of the House. The publication of the Impact Assessment over a month after the Bill was introduced and halfway...
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terms: assessment, impact, publication
HSSIB recommendation
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Positive patient identification
Those designing patient identification processes, including related software, can improve patient safety by undertaking effective equality impact assessments and by considering the needs of specific patient groups that are at high risk of being misidentified.
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The service has done enough to complete one of our recommendations by reviewing its equality impact assessment process. But the other recommendations still require action to be taken or completed. Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should review its...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s Afghan resettlement schemes (October 2022 – April 2023)
The Home Office should: a. publish its equality impact assessments in respect of Afghan resettlement schemes on GOV.UK, where this would not harm national security or operational effectiveness.
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#10 - Lack of consultation and assessment for property relief reforms causes concern
We are concerned, however, that no consultation, impact assessment, or affordability assessment was conducted before the announcement of the reforms. The lack of proper evaluation of the impact of these changes means that the scale and nature of its impact on family farms, land values, tenant farmers, food security and farmers in the devolved administrations is disputed and...
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terms: assessment, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since our last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. Recommendation: The service should improve equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by: • making sure it has robust processes in place to do equality impact assessments and reviewing any actions agreed as a result;
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since the last inspection to improve EDI. Recommendation: By 31 August 2022, the service should develop an action plan to: • make sure it has robust processes in place to undertake equality impact assessments and review any actions agreed as a result.
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since the last inspection to improve its EDI. Recommendation: By 30 September 2021, the service should improve the understanding and use of equality impact assessments in all aspects of its work, and consider if its policies and procedures are inclusive and support those with protected characteristics.
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t done enough since the last inspection to improve understanding and awareness of the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and remove barriers to embedding EDI in the service. Recommendation: By 28 February 2022 the service should develop an action plan to improve the understanding and use of equality impact assessments in...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Inquiry recommendation
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COVID-M2.8 - Vulnerable People Framework
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should each agree a framework that identifies people who would be most at risk of becoming infected by and dying from a disease and those who are most likely to be negatively impacted by any steps taken to respond to a future pandemic. The framework should set...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HSSIB recommendation
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Electronic patient record (EPR) systems – thematic review
Does your organisation have a process for carrying out effective equality impact assessments to consider the needs of specific patient and staff groups who may be users of the EPR system?
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2021-22 CoC Recommendations: Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: The service hasn’t made enough progress since the last inspection to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. Recommendation: By 31 January 2022, the service should:- ensure it has robust processes in place to undertake equality impact assessments, implement and review any actions required;
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s processing of family visas September 2021 – February 2022
3. Review and update the existing Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) for Appendix FM to understand the impact on applicants and their dependents who:
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s management of fee waiver applications (August 2024 – November 2024)
Ensure that where significant changes to fee waiver policy and processes are proposed, including but not limited to the triaging of applications by cohort or 29 characteristic(s), these are subject to an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) to ensure that they are compliant with the Home Office’s Public Sector Equality Duty, and determine whether Ministerial Authorisation should be sought...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
LGO / SPSO decision
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25-001-205 - Herefordshire Council
Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint that the Council failed to make reasonable adjustments around accessing one of its Household Recycling Centres. Nor will we investigate Miss X’s complaint the Council threatened to remove her larger refuse bin when she complained, sent her too many communications and failed to carry out an equality impact assessment. There...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the Home Office’s use of sanctions and penalties
The Home Office should: 1. Carry out a co-ordinated review of current BICS sanctions and penalties, starting with a clear statement of the specific objective(s) of each measure and how the Home Office will monitor and report its performance and outcomes, and including: a. an impact assessment and policy equality statement setting out who will be affected, directly...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#35 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
The Government should publish proposals for introducing ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting within the next six months.
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#30 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend the Government require all departments to collect and publish data disaggregated by sex and protected characteristics in a way that facilitates reporting and analysis on how, for example, gender, ethnicity, disability, age and socio-economic status interact, and can compound disadvantage.
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#13 - Share DPTAC's policy involvement work plan and publish quarterly impact reports.
The Department should share with this Committee a work plan mapping out DPTAC’s involvement in upcoming policy decisions, and publish quarterly reports detailing the impact that DPTAC has had on the Department’s decision-making. (Recommendation, Paragraph 77)
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#28 - 2nd Report - Transition to State Pension Age
State Pension age rises risk exacerbating existing inequalities in health and lifetime earnings. This should be reflected in impact assessments on State Pension age rises but is not. (Conclusion, Paragraph 116)
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terms: assessment, impact
Committee recommendation
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#9 - 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
The government should develop a national performance management framework for homelessness assessments and allocation policies which specifically includes monitoring of outcomes by race and sex and compliance with the Equality Act 2010. It should collate and publish a summary of findings at least annually and report significant patterns of racial and other biases in local decision-making to the...
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terms: assessment, equality
HMICFRS recommendation
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FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Since our last inspection, the service has made enough improvement to address two of our previous recommendations. But it still needs to improve equality, diversity and inclusion. The following recommendations remain in place. Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should resubmit an action plan that details how it intends to improve the understanding and use...
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#37 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
We recommend the Government amend the HR1 form to require information about the sex, race, and if possible other protected characteristics of staff. (Paragraph 146) 44 Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#34 - Fifth report: Unequal impact? Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact
There have been growing calls for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting. The unequal economic effects of the pandemic have demonstrated the imperative to introduce these measures.
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#6 - Policy change creates disproportionate impact on elderly and terminally ill Welsh farmers.
We are also concerned that the change in policy may have a disproportionate impact on elderly farmers or those with terminal illness who have arranged their affairs on the basis that their estates would not be subject to IHT, and will not have an opportunity to change their succession arrangements in ways which would legitimately minimise any eventual...
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Committee recommendation
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#32 - Set out proposals to strengthen mental health system accountability, including Race Equality Framework implementation.
The sector has called for a Mental Health Commissioner to address concerns about a lack of accountability across the mental health system. The Government has said it does not want to take this approach. We ask it to set out proposals to strengthen accountability, including for implementing the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework in full. (Recommendation, Paragraph...
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terms: equality
IOPC learning recommendation
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Operation Hotton recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2021
The IOPC recommends that the MPS should review current guidance and policy in relation to acting up to ensure there is transparency and clarity on how acting up positions are decided. The guidance should ensure that decisions for officers acting up are recorded, and there is an appropriate balance between short-term business needs and its commitment to equality...
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terms: equality, impact
LGO / SPSO decision
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23-020-756 - London Borough of Hackney
Summary: Mr X complained about how the Council monitored and enforced “school streets” traffic restrictions, which restrict vehicles entering the street during school drop-off and pick-up times. The Council failed to consider its duties under the Equality Act in how it considered the impact of its processes on blue badge holders needing to use school streets. It also...
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terms: equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of visit visa operations December 2022 to January 2023
Ensure that all components of CARS are routinely reviewed, particularly equality impact assessments and risk profiles
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
ICIBI recommendation
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An inspection of the immigration system as it relates to the social care sector (August 2023 to November...
Complete a review of the addition of care workers and home carers to the Skilled Worker route, as committed to in the Equality Impact Assessment of January 2022. Lessons identified in the review should underpin any lessons learned to inform future decisions about how to:
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terms: assessment, equality, impact
Committee recommendation
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#9 - 2nd Report - Transition to State Pension Age
The government must: • confirm that a core task for the Secretary of State’s State Pension age review, due by March 2029, will be to consider those groups on whom State Pension age increases have a disproportionately negative impact and the measures that are needed to mitigate that; and • publish the report of the third independent State...
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terms: impact
Committee recommendation
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#79 - 1st Report - Investing in the UK economy
The British Business Bank, and all UK public finance institutions, should as part of their annual reports publish equality data for all their programmes and initiatives, so that inequalities can be identified and addressed. This data should be broken down by UK regions, company size, gender, disability status and ethnicity. (Recommendation, Paragraph 250) 130
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terms: equality
Committee recommendation
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#54 - Fourth Report: Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus): institutional accommodation
As part of this Covid-19 strategy, the Home Office should publish the Public Health England guidance that it has taken to inform its decisions about ending the current 62 Home Office preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus): institutional accommodation measures to support asylum seekers. The Home Office should also confirm how it has adhered to the relevant Public Sector Equality...
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terms: equality
NAO recommendation
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Regulation of private renting
c) Report publicly on progress against its aims for the sector and the impact of its legislative interventions. It should use regular reporting in an open and transparent way to enable public understanding and assessment of progress.
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IMB recommendation
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Thorn Cross (2021)
The diversity and equality action team needs to meet regularly with data being analysed to measure the impact of all areas of the prison’s work and shared with the Board in a timely manner.
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terms: equality, impact
LGO / SPSO decision
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23-017-062 - Northumberland County Council
Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about an alleged breach of the Equality Act 2010 and Local Government Act 1999. This is because the complaint does not meet the tests in our Assessment Code on how we decide which complaints to investigate. Breaches of the Equality Act 2010 are matters for the courts. Failure to obtain best...
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terms: assessment, equality
Committee recommendation
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#34 - 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
If reading is to provide children with both mirrors of their own worlds and windows into the lives of others, the curriculum must be designed to support this. It is unacceptable that, in 2023, only 1.5% of students had studied a text by a writer of colour at GCSE, and we do not understand why the Curriculum and...
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terms: assessment
Committee recommendation
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#78 - 1st Report - Investing in the UK economy
We firmly believe that what gets measured gets managed. We echo the conclusion reached by the Women and Equalities Committee that increasing transparency of the financing and investment gap, through the collection and reporting of equality data, could be a key driver of improvement. (Conclusion, Paragraph 249)
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terms: equality