Equality Impact Assessment Template

Department / FINANCE
EIA Reference Number / FIN/EIA006
Responsible Officer / Mark Owen
e-mail address /
Full job title / Head of Finance
Rationale:
Why is this proposal being considered?
What need is being addressed? / 1.Staff review – reduction in Internal Audit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax, Income and Accountancy staff.
2.Centralised Debt Recovery – bring together local taxation, debtors and benefits recovery staff.
3.Council Tax electronic billing savings relate to postage as email address bank builds up.
4.On-line Housing Benefit Claims.
Aim:
What is the intended outcome of the proposal? / To improve the efficiency of Finance Department and bring together common functions. To increase usage of digital processes.
How:
How will the policy be delivered, by whom and by when? / Arrangements have been put in place within the Department to deliver these within the five year plan.
Who:
Who are the people likely to be affected by this proposal?
How have you consulted with the people who are likely to be affected? / People who owe money to the Council, suppliers and staff.
Staff are aware of the changes. Housing Benefit claimants and Council Tax payers will be notified of the changes prior to implementation.
Measures:
How will you know you have achieved your aims?
What are your measures/indicators of success? / The budget savings proposals will be delivered in financial terms.
Identify any other policy or decision [internal or external] that may affect your proposal e.g Welfare Reforms / The introduction of Welfare Reform may impact on these changes.
Consultation / No issues arose from the consultation exercise in respect of items 1, 2 and 3. Item 4 will form part of the overall Council budget consultation in the late summer 2014.

Screening Tool

As part of our annual Equality Return we have to evidence what we have actively done to support people with Protected Characteristics within our services, and also evidence where we may have a negative impact what we are doing to reduce the impact.

Please place a ‘+’ or ‘-‘symbol in every box to indicate whether your proposalwith have a positive or negative affect any of theprotected characteristics. If there is no impact at all place ‘n/a’. If there is a positive and negative effect indicate both:

Carers / Age
CYP
-18 / Age
Adults
18+ / Disability / Gender / Sex / Pregnancy and Maternity / Race/ Ethnicity / Religion or Belief / Sexual Orientation / Marriage and Civil Partnership / Gender Reassignment
Q1
Would this proposalsignificantly affect how functions are delivered to any of these groups? / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a
Q2
Would this discriminate any of these groups? / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a
Q3
Would this proposal advance the equality of opportunity for these groups? / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a
Q4
Would this promote good relations between these groups and the wider community? / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a / n/a

Where you have identified a positive impact (+) above, please describe this:

Where you have identified no impact (n/a) above, please describe this:

If you have indicated a possible negative effect on any Protected Characteristic then please complete therelevant sections of the Matrix below. You need to consider:

What is the likely scale of the impact and how this can be reduced?

Who are the people who are likely to be affected by this proposal?

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Equality Impact Assessment

List what information have you used to identify these issues e.g. consultation, stakeholder involvement, reports, data … / Based on the information you have gathered give a summary of key issues that have been identified. / How will we mitigate these issues to improve the service? / Who is responsible officer for delivering the mitigation? / Which other departments will you work with to achieve this? / By when / Service Plan Reference
Carers
Age CYP -18
Age Adult +18
Disability
Gender / Sex
Pregnancy and Maternity
Race/ Ethnicity
Religion or Belief
Sexual Orientation
Marriage and Civil Partnership
Gender Reassignment

Please complete this text box within12 months of implementation of the proposal:

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