Equality impact assessment youth work delivery in locality H

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

Youth Work Delivery in Locality H

2. What are the aims of the function, policy or service? How do they relate to the departmental objectives in the Service Plan? Whose needs it is designed to meet? What are the current priorities?

The Youth Development Service designs and delivers with young people, programmes of informal educational activity that provide opportunities for them to:

• develop their physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, social and emotional capabilities;
• identify and accept their responsibilities as individuals, group members and citizens;
• understand and act upon the personal and social issues which affect their lives - those of others and the communities of which they are a part.

The service activities provide informal learning through high quality youth work designed to achieve the standards and targets identified within Transforming Youth Work: Resourcing Excellent Youth Services.

3. In what ways might this function, 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? Consider all six equality strands: race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age.

Race

• We do have the capability to give equal access to information and advice to non-English speakers.
• There are no specific sessions for BME young people.

Gender

• There is currently a 60% (male) - 40% (female) imbalance in contacts.
• The locations of our centres are in poorly lit areas near large open spaces. Some young women have expressed some concern about accessing the provision in the evening because of this.
• At present we have no single gender provision.

Sexual orientation

• We have no specific sessions for gay and lesbian young people.

Religion/belief

• We have no religious specific sessions.

Age

• ·There is no statistic analysis of breakdown of attendance by age (within the 13-19 remit)

Other

• Rural communities have little or no access to services. Some street based work undertaken but not a sustained programme.

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

• Statistical returns
• Professional judgement.
• Consultation with young people (group work, evaluation questionnaires etc)
• Discussions with staff meetings and conferences
• Centre staff meetings
• Multi-agency forums (e.g. ASB partnership etc)

5. How and with 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?

• Young people
• LYPIG members
• Staff
• Parents
• Partner agencies

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

No.

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 function, policy or service work better for this group of people? Is further research or consultation required?

• Resources of staff and capacity to deliver a substantial street-based work programme for rural communities in the locality.
• Single gender programmes and sessions.

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

• Annual stats
• Inspections reports
• Surveys
• Consultation with young people

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

• Continue to seek funding to increase street based work capacity
• Plan, deliver and evaluate single gender programmes

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

Through the Equality and Diversity Officer the documentation will be put on the website.

11. Name of person completing form

Head of Youth Development

Date

April 2007

12. Senior manager approval

Assistant Director Resources, Improvement and Young People

Date

03 January 2008

Last updated: 13 May 2009