Equality impact assessment - youth offending service case recording

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

Case Recording Policy

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

Provides the standards by which staff in the Youth Offending service should record their contacts and activities with young people and other relevant agencies.

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?

The policy (paragraph 4.7) makes it clear that ‘case recording should be precise, factual and written in plain non discriminatory, non oppressive language’.

Case files are checked regularly by line managers in their supervision of staff to ensure that this is upheld. There is currently no evidence to suggest that this standard is not being adhered to.

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?

See answer to previous question for evidence.

No concerns have been raised by YOS clients, staff or the public.

No complaints have been made

There is local/national research that has indicated that there could be a problem.

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?

YOS staff, who have raised no equality issues with the policy

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?

Not applicable

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?

Not applicable

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

Policy will be monitored annually

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

Ensure case recordings are continually monitored for discriminatory/oppressive content

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

Via the YOS area on the website.

11. Name of person completing form

Head of Youth Offending Team

Date assessment completed

20/3/07

12. Senior manager approval

Assistant Director Resources, Improvement and Young People

Date

2 April 2007

Last updated: 13 May 2009