Equality impact assessment - emergency contingency policy youth offending service

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

Emergency Contingency Policy

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

In the case of an emergency priority would be given to sustaining business critical work (e.g. work with high risk offenders) and skeleton coverage of low risk work.

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?

In an emergency, a lower priority would be given to low risk offenders which may make it difficult for them to access the service.

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?

No evidence as policy is currently untested.

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 only

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?

In an emergency situation disruption to the service provided to lower risk clients may be unavoidable.

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?

A revision of the policy will be undertaken if it ever has to be enacted, in order to evaluate its effectiveness.

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

None at present

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

Via the YOS website

11. Name of person completing form

Head of Youth Offending Team

Date assessment completed

29/03/07

12. Senior manager approval

Assistant Director Resources, Improvement and Young People

Date

2 April 2007

Last updated: 13 May 2009