Equality impact assessment youth offending service sickness reporting procedure

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

Youth Offending Service sickness reporting procedure

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

Clarity of sickness reporting ,recording and monitoring. All Youth Offending staff.

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?

Staff with disabilities, pregnancy or existing medical conditions may be affected differently by this policy but this would be discussed with line managers and with Occupational Health with the individual at the time.

These groups might be limited by the current premises the YOS are housed in i.e. toilet facilities.

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?

Previous sick notes and management discussions around absence. Staff raise concerns about current facilities, there is also no rest room which is a requirement for pregnant woman.

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?

Management team. South West YOT Business Support managers.

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?

This can be justified as a Health and Safety and Employee Well being need for better reporting and management of levels of sickness. It will also help for better scrutinising and patterns of health issues within the YOS. It will also give more equality of process for all multi agency staff.

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?

N/A

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

Monitoring of the reporting system.

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

None needed but continue to raise the issue of facilities staff have.

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

Business Manager

Date assessment completed

20.12.2007

12. Senior manager approval

Head of Youth Offending Service

Last updated: 13 May 2009