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Equality Impact Assessment - Environmental/Sustainability Policy
1. What is the name of the function, policy or service that is being assessed?
Environmental/Sustainability Policy
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?
To improve the environmental performance of the County Council. Current priorities:
- Carbon Management
- ISO 14001
- Sustainable Procurement
- Climate Change
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.
This service does not directly link to the public. In developing climate change/sustainability policy in the future it will be necessary to consider effects on different groups and appropriate solutions.
Age - N/A
Disability - In-house there may be some issues around providing recycling facilities which may not be accessible to disabled staff.
Gender N/A
Race - N/A
Religion/belief - N/A
Sexual orientation - N/A
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 indicate that there could be a problem?
In the past we have had no complaints or concerns from County Council on the environmental policy. The only concern is around comfort issues related to energy policy specifying building temperatures etc. This however is something that is more of an issue for the property management service.
5. How and with whom have you consulted with as part of your assessment? What were the results? Have you published the results of that consultation? If so, where?
Other relevant colleagues
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?
N/A
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?
N/A
8. How will you monitor the take-up or impact of the function, policy or service in future?
N/A
9. What actions do you plan to take as a result of this equality impact?
None
10. There is a legal requirement to publish the outcomes of Equality Impact Assessments. Please outline how / where this will happen.
16 June 2008
11. Name of person completing form:
Business Analyst
Date assessment completed:
15 June 2007
12. Senior manager approval:
Assistant Director - Planning & Regeneration
Date:
15 June 2007
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Wiltshire County Council
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Trowbridge
Wiltshire
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