Equality Impact Assessments

The legal requirement

The Race Relations Amendment Act, the Disability Discrimination Act and the Gender Equality Duty requires the West Midlands Fire Service to assess its functions, services and policies to determine whether the policy function or activity has an impact on equality in terms of both service provision and employment.

The West Midlands Fire Service is required to take action to reduce or remove disadvantage on the basis of age, disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief, race and gender.

The legislation therefore allows for the undertaking of initial and full equality impact assessments and provides evidence that a policy function or activity has undergone an assessment to ensure that there are no unlawful discriminatory outcomes on particular groups of people.

All equality impact assessments have been prioritised and there is a timetable available for when assessments need to be completed.

Below is a list of all the functions which require an equality impact assessment and there are also copies of the initial and full equality impact assessments for each department in the West Midlands Fire Service.
 

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