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Equality Impact Assessment - Provision of Supported Living Services
1. What is the name of the policy or service that is being assessed?
Provision of Supported Living Services
2. What are the aims of the policy or service? Whose needs is it designed to meet? What are the current priorities?
To enable adults with disabilities to take control of their lives, by utilising a range of funding sources to live in their own homes. To provide excellent services at good value for money, achieve high public satisfaction and be a transparent and local service. A priority are those living in long stay residential homes.
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. 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 WCC Comprehensive Performance Indicators which are announced on an annual basis.
No staff concerns
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 and 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 WCC communication procedure
11. Name of person completing form
Home Care Manager
Date
11/10/06
12. Senior manager approval
Interim Assistant Director (Strategy & Commissioning)
Date
12/10/06
Contact Details
By Post
Equality & Diversity Team
Development Services
Wiltshire County Council
County Hall
Bythesea Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 8JN
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01225 713510
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