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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