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Race Impact Assessment

From April 2007 Race Impact Assessment has been included in the:-

Race Impact Assessment Action Plans

Change and Development Team - 1st April 2006 to 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 One Community is consistent with processes they are developing with the community and voluntary sector. July 2007 Vince Johnston
2. Discuss with One Community how they will capture ethnic profile data for Dial-a-Ride and Shop Mobility. End of August Vince Johnston
3. Ensure all services include and analyse ethnic profiling within feedback/satisfaction surveys. March 2007 Mark Lonsdale Vince Johnston
4. Analyse corporate survey information using ethnic profiling - Citizen panels and BV User survey. Each survey Dec 2006 Mark Lonsdale Vince Johnston
5. Report results of corporate analyses to Management Team and Community Development. March 2007 Vince Johnston
     

Community Development (Now Health and Community Team) - 1st April 2006 to 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 to 31st March 2007

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

Disability Strategy - 1st April 2006 to 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 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 discussion needed Tony Hall
5. Review latest good practice to identify actions relevant to Eastleigh. June 2007 Tony Hall
     

IT - 1st April 2006 to 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 to 31st March 2009

   
Action Timescale Lead Officer
1. Ensure the Asian Elders group received 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 to 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 no 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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