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Equality Impact Assessment - Road Safety Driver Improvement
1. What is the name of the function, policy or service that is being assessed?
Road Safety – Driver Improvement Schemes
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?
Making Wiltshire’s roads safer.
Course offered (by CPS) as alternative to prosecution for careless driving.
Objective to influence driver behaviour.
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.
Courses open to offenders referred to WCC by CPS. Issues encountered:
- Race/Ethnic Groups – non English speaking
- Gender – none
- Disability – wheelchair users and drivers with hearing difficulties
- Sexual Orientation – not known to be a problem
- Religion/Belief – not known to be a problem
- Age – drivers of all ages successfully catered for
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?
No known complaints – all needs have been successfully catered for – approx twice a year issues arise.
Non-English speaking – usually a relative of the driver attends to translate.
Deaf drivers – appropriate support brought in to deal with degree of deafness – “signing” for example.
Wheelchair users – facilities are provided as part of the course.
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?
Discussion with Senior Road Safety Officer involved in the running of the course on a day to day basis.
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?
Offending drivers are offered the course by CPS. WCC is the service provided – all drivers wishing to participate have been successfully accommodated regardless of race, gender, disability etc.
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?
The performance of Driver Improvement Schemes is monitored by the Association of National Driver Improvement Service Providers.
9. What actions do you plan to take as a result of this equality impact assessment? Please state any resource implications.
None
10. There is a legal requirement to publish the outcomes of Equality Impact Assessments. Please outline how / where this will happen.
Assume this is a Corporate decision on publishing policy.
11. Name of person completing form
Traffic Manager
Date assessment completed:
5 February 2007
12. Senior manager approval
Assistant Director - Planning & Regeneration
Date
7 November 2007
