Equality impact assessment guidance

We have created a Slack channel called #equality-impact-assessments to enable staff to discuss EIAs, ask questions and collaborate.  Please ensure communications are suitably anonymised, and no confidential or personally identifiable information is shared.

We aim to provide further guidance and information on these web pages as we progress, including short pre-recorded presentations, case studies and interviews with staff who have completed EIAs.

Current guidance includes:

1. EIA 2024 Guidance: detailed, comprehensive guidance on how to complete EIAs.
2. EIA Screening Form: to help you decide whether an EIA is necessary, and record the reasons for your decision.
3. EIA flowchart: to accompany the Screening Form: to enable you to make a speedy and informed decision whether an EIA is likely to be necessary.
4. EIA Full Assessment Form: to help you complete a full EIA assessment and record your considerations and actions. This also asks you to plan a review of your EIA at some point in the future, to see whether your actions and mitigations worked as expected.
5. EIA Review Form: to help you look back on your EIA at a future date, consider what happened in reality and decide whether there are any further actions needed to counter any unforeseen outcomes.

Sharing Good Practice

EIAs should be stored in the Equality Impact Assessment Repository.

This is accessible to all staff and allows the sharing of knowledge and good practice across the institution. If you are considering undertaking an EIA, it is a good idea to see whether someone else has already completed one on a similar topic, which may save time, reduce duplication, and enable you to complete a better EIA. Where an EIA doesn’t exist on a similar topic, looking at how others generally approach EIAs may help you to decide what your approach should be.