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Race Impact Assessment Action Plans

Change and Development Team

1st April 2006 - 31st March 2007

 

Action

Timescale

Lead Officer

1  Liaise with the Council’s Community Development service to ensure the monitoring process to be developed for Eastleigh Community Services is consistent with processes they are development with the Community and Voluntary Sector

 

July 2007

 

 

 

Vince Johnston

 

 

 

2  Discuss with Eastleigh Community Services how they will capture ethnic profile data for:

  • Dial-a-ride
  • Shop mobility

 

 

End of August

 

 

 

Vince Johnston

 

 

 

 

3  Ensure all services include and analyse ethnic profiling within feedback/satisfaction surveys

 

Mar 2007

 

 

MarkLonsdale/

Vince Johnston

 

4  Analyse Corporate survey information using ethnic profiling:

  • Citizen panels
  • BV User survey

 

 

Each survey

Dec 2006

 

 

Mark Lonsdale

Vince Johnston

 

 

 

5  Report results of corporate analyses to Management Team and Community Development

 

Mar 2007

 

 

Vince Johnston

 

 

 

Community Development

(Now Health and Community Team)

 

1st April 2006- 31st March 2007

 

 

Action

 

Timescale

Lead Officer

1 Establish a more effective method of obtaining ethnic profiling information from organisations applying for grant funding for 2007/2008

 

 By end of August 2006

 

 

 

 Helen Coleman

 

 

 

2  Establish with sponsored organisations how they will record and report ethnic profiling information concerning their services.  

 

To be included in new Service Level Agreements starting on 1st April 2007

 

Helen Coleman

 

 

 

3  Produce a Compact Code of Good Practice for voluntary and community groups for ethnic communities.

 

 

By end of March 2007

 

 

 

Helen Coleman

 

 

 

4  Develop a joint understanding with organisations representing ethnic communities in the Borough concerning their key aims and priorities.

 

 

Initial discussions to take place by December 2006

 

 

 

Helen Coleman/Rajni Bali

 

 

5  Support the Council in implementing the race Impact Assessments Process.

 

Ongoing

 

 

Helen Coleman/Rajni Bali

 

Development Control

 

1st April 2006 - 31st March 2007

 

 

 

Action Timescale Lead Officer
1  Revise customer satisfaction survey. March 2007 Elaine Pettitt

 

Disability Strategy

 

1st April 2006- 31st March 2007

 

 

Action

 

Timescale

Lead Officer

1  Establish a more effective method of obtaining ethnic profiling information from organisations applying for grant funding for 2007/2008.

 

 By end of August 2006

 

 

 

 Helen Coleman

 

 

 

2   Establish with sponsored organisations how they will record and report ethnic profiling information concerning their services.  

 

To be included in new Service Level Agreements starting on 1st April 2007.

 

Helen Coleman

 

 

 

3  Produce a Compact Code of Good Practice for voluntary and community groups for ethnic communities.

 

By end of March 2007

 

 

 

Helen Coleman

 

 

 

4  Develop a joint understanding with organisations representing ethnic communities in the Borough concerning their key aims and priorities.

 

 

Initial discussions to take place by December 2006

 

 

 

Helen Coleman/Rajni Bali

 

 

5  Support the Council in implementing the race Impact Assessments Process.

 

Ongoing

 

 

Helen Coleman/Rajni Bali

 

 

Health and Social Policy

(Now Health and Community Team)

 

 

Action Timescale Lead Officer

1  Health and Social Policy will ensure that leads in implementing the older people plan provide information on the ethnicity of service users.

December

2007

Mary Amos

2  Health and Social Policy will ensure that leads in implementing the Social Inclusion Strategy provide information on ethnicity of service users.

Completed Mary Amos
3  Health and Social Policy will ensure that partners involved in delivering the Safety Equipment Loan Scheme introduce ethnicity monitoring for access and delivery as part of its full review. Completed Mary Amos

 

 

Housing

 

   Action  Timescale Lead Officer
1  Continue monitoring and take follow up action where warranted. Quarterly Tony Hall
2  Publicise availability of Disabled Facilities Grants further to minority groups to improve take-up. December 2007 Tony Hall
3  Analyse gypsy and traveller needs assessment when received and act to implement recommendations. To be timetabled.  Tony Hall
4  Analyse results of supported housing research and act on recommendations as appropriate. Further discussions needed.  Tony Hall
5  Review latest good practice to identify actions relevant to Eastleigh. June 2007  Tony Hall

 

IT

 

1st April 2006 - 31st March 2007

 

 

 

Action Timescale Lead Officer
1  Organise a focus group for non English speakers March 2007

Helen Coleman/

Steve Collins

2  Confer with Nigel Green regarding procurement policy March 2007

Helen Coleman/

Nigel Green

 

Revenue and Benefits

 

1st April 2006- 31st March 2009

 

Action

 

Timescale

Lead Officer

1  Ensure the Asian Elders group  receives information about annual road shows through the health and Community Team.

 

By end of February 2007 for the 2007/08 distribution and then each subsequent year.

Loraine Radford

 

2. Report ethnicity monitoring information collected through the bi-annual benefits customer satisfaction survey to the Race Equality Group.

 

To be reported to the REG group in February 2007 and February 2009

 

 

Loraine Radford

 

 

3  Report ethnicity monitoring information concerning benefits claimants to REG annually.

May each year.

 

Loraine Radford

 

Sustainability

 

1st April 2006 - 31st March 2007

 
Action
 
Timescale
Lead Officer
1  Investigate what information, evidence and data about gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age is collected and held by other departments. 
 
 By end of October 2006
 
 Beverley Draig/Judith Beard
2  Using the data collected above we shall evidence the equality impact of our Plan and can ensure that not groups are excluded from the benefits of the plan or denied fair and equal access as a result of the Plan.
By end of December 2006
 
Beverley Draig/Judith Beard
3  Work closely with Community Development and use Compact Code of Good Practice to develop consultation and monitoring of diversity and race impact of future projects and plans.
 
By end of March 2007
 
 
Beverley Draig/Judith Beard

 

The following units will comply with the Council's new diversity monitoring procedures

 and will be reviewed as part of the Equal Opportunities Assessment

 

 

  • Building Control
  • Development Control

 

 

 

 

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