Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs)

Our vision is to make Newham a place where people choose to live, work and stay. Essential to this vision is raising the quality of life for all our residents to the same level as the rest of London.

To do this we must concentrate our efforts on those who are most disadvantaged. The council, as a public body, also has a legal duty to promote equality, eradicate unfair discrimination and support diversity.

Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs) are essential to ensuring that we treat everyone fairly in the delivery of our services and the development of our strategies and policies. See a list of our most recently conducted EQIAs and our list of Equality Impact Assessment summaries.

They are about ensuring every resident and service user has equal access to services and opportunities in life, and recognising when they do not and putting in place plans to change this and ensure equal opportunity. An EQIA can help us to understand:

• Capacity to promote equality
• Capacity to reduce inequality
• Adverse effects on equality
• Potential unlawful discrimination

An Equality Impact Assessment can identify both positive and negative impacts. Once an impact has been identified EQIAs helps to identify actions which build on the positive and mitigate the negative in order to improve outcomes for local people.

The council has in place a toolkit which contains guidance and a suggested template for undertaking EQIAs for decisions which will impact on service users. Those EQIAs are undertaken as part of decision making and the council has a duty to ensure they are published as part of decision making.

For EQIA guidance, contact David Hodgkins at david.hodgkins@newham.gov.uk or on 020 3373 9932.


Recently conducted EQIAs

EQIA title	Date sent to Cabinet
Implementation of the Adults Social Care Charging Policy 2011	21/07/2011
Council Tax and Benefits - Relocation to Newham Dockside	21/04/2011
Accessibility to Customer Access Buildings	16/12/2010
Children & Young People's Plan	16/12/2010
Customer Access Strategy : (Realising the Benefits workstream)	16/12/2010
Housing Strategy	16/12/2010
Stratford Masterplan	16/12/2010
Changes to the Council Tax and Benefits Service	18/11/2010
Decant and leaseholder and freeholder acquisition of the Trinity Area in the Canning Town & Custom House Regeneration area	18/11/2010
Local Development Framework	4/11/2010
Alcohol Strategy 2010-13	21/10/2010
Economic Development Strategy	21/10/2010
Extension of the age range from 11-16 to 3-16 and the Provision of an ASD Unit at Langdon School	27/08/2010
Building Schools for the Future and Primary Capital Programme	15/07/2010
The Design Guide for Borough Roads	15/07/2010
Workplace	15/07/2010
Every Child a Musician	08/07/2010
Support Services for Service Users Accessing Self-directed Support Framework	08/07/2010
Maximising Recycling	01/07/2010
School Admission Arrangements 2011-12	20/05/2010
Stratford Public Realm Project	18/02/2010
Forest Gate Supplementary Planning Document	21/01/2010
Sustainable Community Strategy 2010-2030	21/01/2010
Joint Waste Development Plan for the East London Waste Authority Boroughs	25/06/2009

Equality Impact Assessment summaries

EqIA Summaries	Date Published
Adults Culture and Leisure
EQIA for Commissioning Independent Living Support Services (ILSS)	27/04/2012
EQIA for Atherton Leisure Centre 2012	16/04/2012
EQIA for Decommissioning Laundry Services	03/01/2012
EQIA Decommissioning Meals Services 2011	01/12/2011
EQIA for Retendering of Advocacy Services 2011	20/09/2011
EQIA Provider Redesign: Greengate Lodge and Rawalpindi House 2011	26/05/2011
EQIA for Parks Capital Programme 2010	08/04/2011
EQIA for Active Communities & People Strategy 2011	08/04/2011
EQIA for commissioning Leisure Services 2011/12	01/03/2011
Children and Young People Service
CYPS Commissioning EQIA Final 2011/12	04/05/2011
EQIA Youth Justice Strategy 2010/11	01/03/2011
EQIA for Royal Docks Schools Trust 2010	07/02/2011
EQIA for School Admissions 2011/12	20/05/2010
Customer Services
Customer Access Strategy : (Realising the Benefits workstream)	29/09/2011
Accessibility to Customer Access Buildings	29/09/2011
EQIA review for Newspaper Provision 2011	28/09/2011
EQIA Changes to the Council Tax and Benefits Service 2011	13/04/2011
EQIA on Information and Guidance Services 2011/12	03/03/2011
EQIA Rent Increase	28/02/2011
EQIA for Council Budget 2011/12	28/02/2011
EQIA Council Tax Freeze	28/02/2011
Environment
EqIA for Newco to become a Local Authority Trading Company	23/02/2011
Changes to Resident Involvement Structures 2011	01/11/2011
EQIA IDVA procurement 2011	04/07/2011
EQIA for LBN Second Local Implementation Plan	04/07/2011
EQIA Carpenters Estate Lease Swap Proposal	01/0612011
EQIA Warm Zone 2011	21/04/ 2011
EQIA for Alcohol Strategy 2010-13	21/10/2010
Regeneration, Planning and Property
Local Development Framework	20/01/2012
EQIA Market Traders Licence 2010	08/04/2011
EQIA Canning Town Custom House 2008	08/04/2011
EQIA Equalities and the Local Development Framework 2010	04/11/2010
EQIA Forest Gate 2009	08/04/2010
EQIA Equalities Standard Workplace EIA4 2008	08/04/2010
EQIA Stratford High Street Town Centre Public Realm 2010	18/02/2010
Resources
EQIA for Review of Staff Terms and Conditions 2011	20/09/2011
EQIA for Mandatory Unpaid Leave/Removal of SCP's above Grade Max. 2011	20/09/2011
EQIA Procurement Strategy Refresh 2011	19/05/2011
EQIA for Procurement Strategy 2009/12	08/04/2011

View the full Cabinet Report here

or to see a copy of the full EQIA please contact the Strategy and Partnerships Team.