Equality, diversity and community cohesion (EDCC) impact assessments are a way of finding out whether the plans, actions and services of the council will affect some communities or groups of people differently.
EDCC impact assessments help the council to:
- identify how services can be made more accessible and appropriate,
- ensure that different groups are equally served by the policy and decision,
- identify improvements to services,
- avoid adopting harmful policies or procedures,
- make better decisions,
- become a better employer.
And importantly:
- there is a legal requirement to do so in relation to race, disability and gender.
- under other equality legislation, we have a duty to show how our services and policies do not discriminate against all communities. Impact assessments will give us this evidence.
- under the Equality Standard for Local Government you have to make sure that all equality strands are considered. The impact assessment should consider disabled people; women, men and trans people; people from black and minority ethnic communities; lesbian, gay and bisexual people; older and younger people; people from different religions and faith and other socially excluded communities.
As part of our legal duties we are required to publish details of completed impact assessments. A summary of each completed impact assessment will be added here over the coming months and years as and when they are completed.
To view the completed EDCC impact assessments, please click on the documents on the right hand side of this page.
To view the completed EDCC impact assessments of Aire Valley Homes, West North West Homes and East North East please click on the relevant website link below.