Equality impact assessment - residential respite

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1. What is the name of the policy or service that is being assessed?

Provision of residential/respite/day care services

2. What are the aims of the policy or service? Whose needs is it designed to meet? What are the current priorities?

To provide excellent services at good value for money, achieve high public satisfaction and be a transparent and local service. To provide relief and respite for parents and carers, a place of safety for those at risk to themselves or the community, offering developmental opportunities that maintains or improves independence.

3. In what ways might this policy or service affect some groups of people differently? Might some groups find it harder to access the service? Do some groups have particular needs that are not well met by the current policy or service?

No adverse affects identified in relation to meeting eligibility criteria. No groups identified as finding it harder to access the service. No unmet needs identified.

4. What evidence do you have for your judgement? Is there evidence of public concern (e.g. complaints)? Have staff raised concerns? Is there local or national research to suggest that there could be a problem?

CSCI reports

Department of Health require regular and annual information that contributes to the council Comprehensive Performance Indicators which are announced on an annual basis.

Not aware of any local or national research

5. Who have you consulted with as part of your assessment? What were the results? Have you published the results of that consultation? If so, where?

Managers of Learning Disability provider services. CSCI consult with service users as part of their assessment. No other consultation undertaken therefore no results published.

6. If you have found that the policy or service might have an adverse impact on a particular group of people, can you justify this?

No adverse impact identified.

7. If the impact cannot be justified, what do you intend to do about this? Are there changes that you could introduce which would make the policy or service work better for this group of people? Is further research or consultation required?

Further consultation to be carried out through service user advocacy organisations

8. How will you monitor the take-up or impact of the policy or service in future?

Re-evaluation upon any changes to service and respond to feedback through consultation with existing service users for whom this service was designed

9. What actions do you plan to take as a result of this equality impact assessment? Please state any resource implications

No actions identified as service for those already in services

10. There is a legal requirement to publish the outcomes of Equality Impact Assessments. Please outline how / where this will happen

Through the identified and agreed communication procedure

11. Name of person completing form

Service Development Manager

Date

11/10/06

12. Senior manager approval

Interim Assistant Director (Strategy & Commissioning)

Date

12/10/06

Last updated: 13 May 2009