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Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) Report
This form should be completed for each Equality Impact Assessment on a new or existing function, service, policy, procedure, strategy, plan or project, which has been screened and found relevant to Equality and Diversity.
Please refer to the ‘Equality Impact Assessment Guidance’ while completing this form. If you would like further guidance please contact the Access to Services Team (see Guidance for details).
Where do you work?
Service Area:
Corporate Building & PropertyServices
Directorate:
Resources
(a) This EIA is being completed for a… Service/ Policy/
Function Procedure Project Strategy Plan
(b) Please name and describe below
Support Services - To provde a service for Corporate Building & Property Services
and City & County of Swansea in various areas including: Asbestos, Waste &
Sustainability, PVCu, Elections, Joiners/Welding/Plant Shops, Transport, CDM, Clearance
of Void Properties and Cleaning Contracts and Facilities to the Depot.
(c) It was initially screened for relevance to Equality and Diversity on…(dd/mm/yyyy)
(d) It was found to be relevant to…
Different racial groups... People with disabilities... Different age groups ... Different religions or beliefs ... Different genders ... Different sexual orientations ... Welsh language speakers...
(e) Lead Officer (f) Approved by Head of Service
Name
: Emma Lewis
Name: Martin Nicholls
Job title:
Corporate Policy Officer
Date (dd/mm/yyyy):
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Section 1 Aims
Briefly describe the aims of the function, service, policy, procedure, strategy, plan or project:
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Information about Service Users
Please tick what information you know about your service users and provide details/ evidence of how this information is collected.
Race ... Age ... Gender... Welsh Speaker... Disability ... Religion or Belief... Sexual orientation ...
Any Actions Required?
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No Actions
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Impact on Equality groups
Please consider the possible impact on the different equality target groups. This could be based on service user information, data, consultation and research or personal experience (e.g. comments and complaints).
Positive Negative Neutral Needs further investigation What are the aims?
To deliver a support service to City & County of Swansea tenants in the
areas stated previously and also to other departments within the Authority
Who has responsibility?
Group Leader, Senior Section Leader
Group Leader, Senior Section Leader
Group Leader, Senior Section Leader
Group Leader, Senior Section Leader
Who are the stakeholders?
Council Tenants, Departments within
Council Tenants, Departments within
Council Tenants, Departments within
Council Tenants, Departments within City & County of Swansea, Sections
City & County of Swansea, Sections
City & County of Swansea, Sections
City & County of Swansea, Sections
within CB & PS, other Authorities, General Public (Elections).
within CB & PS, other Authorities, General Public (Elections).
within CB & PS, other Authorities, General Public (Elections).
within CB & PS, other Authorities, General Public (Elections).
Please provide details/ evidence of how this information is collected
Information in relation to
council tenants is held by
The Housing
Department. If any
information is required
contact is made with this
Department.
3 Different racial groups
Different age groups Different genders
Welsh language speakers Disabled people
Different religions or beliefs Different sexual orientations
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ion
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Other Impacts
Please consider the possible impact on the following. This could be based on service user information, data, consultation and research or personal experience (e.g. comments and complaints).
Community Relations
Promotion of Equality of Opportunity
Elimination of discrimination
Reduction of Social Exclusion/Poverty *
*See Definition of Social Exclusion/Poverty in guidance Please explain any possible impact on the above.
If there was any non-compliance of legal requirements, service users would have
difficulty in accessing the services due to no provision.
What work have you already done to improve any of the above?
All information relating to asbestos, waste & sustainability, transport is available on
the intranet or the shared drive (for those with access). Annual training is carried
out through ARCA for the asbestos section. Sharing of good practice with other
Authorities. Part of the resilience group combined with Neath & Port Talbot. Part
of the election group. Attend Construction Wales meetings. Straplines on
documents.
Actions (to mitigate adverse impact or to address identified gaps in knowledge)
••••
See action plan
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Section 5
Monitoring arrangements
Please explain the arrangements in place (or which will be put in place) to monitor this function, service, policy, procedure, strategy, plan or project:
PI's, Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Audits - Green Dragon and ISO9001, articles
in Open House magazine, Depot Statutory Inspections, Asbestos Licences,
Thinking about your answers above, please explain in detail why this is the case including details of any consultation (and/or other information), which has been undertaken to support your view?
As all information in relation to tenants is held by the Housing Dept we
would have to consult with them to ascertain what information is held and
how this would impact on the equality groups
Any actions required (to mitigate adverse impact or to address identified gaps in knowledge)
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A lot of the work carried out by the section is a legal requirement. Any gaps
are filled through annual training and briefings.
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Asbestos Register and Asbestos Survey Register, Transport Monitoring System.
Section 6
Publication arrangements
On completion, please follow this 3-step procedure:
1. Forward this EIA report and action plan to the Access to Services Team for feedback and approval – [email protected]
2. Make any necessary amendments/additions.
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Action Plan
What are we going to do and why?
Who will be responsible for seeing it is done?
When will it be done by? How will we know we have
achieved our objective?
