Equality Impact Assessment

Calculating the Equality Risk Score

You will need to calculate a risk score twice:

On the inherent risk of the proposal itself (without considering any mitigating actions you may identify at the end of the Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) process)
On the risk that remains (the residual risk) after mitigating actions have been identified.

This is necessary at both points to:

Firstly, identify whether an EqIA needs to be completed for the proposal and;
Secondly, to understand what risk would be left if the actions identified to mitigate against any adverse impact are implemented

Next : Stage One - to get the inherent risk rating

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