Equality Impact Assessment (EIA)

Do you know what an Equality Impact Assessment is?
Have you been tasked with completing one?
Are you developing a new strategy/project/policy/service or revising an existing strategy/project/policy/service?
Are you organising an office/building move for your staff/service?

An equality impact assessment is simply a risk management tool to ensure legal compliance with our equality duties and ensure best management practice.

It is a project planning aide that helps us in ensuring that we have transparent and fit for purpose policies and consultation and communication plans and can help us evidence that we are not discriminating against anyone, that we are providing equal opportunities to all and that we are promoting good relations between all. It is like a checklist that helps us consider the impact on all our stakeholders, be they staff, students, visitors, partners etc. and supports us in thinking about being inclusive and accessible to all and in creatively making reasonable adjustments.

(Good practice is if a few of you get together to fill this form in. Best practice is when you involve all stakeholders right from the beginning in helping conduct the EIA. Of course, resources and timing may not allow you to do this.)

Download the form below if you need any support in completing the EIA please contact A.P.Akram@lboro.ac.uk (Telephone: 01509 222389).

Loughborough University EIA Template (25 March 2011)

Please note that there is now an online form available with helpful guidance notes to assist you in completing the EIA.  There will also be EIA training/briefing sessions running throughout 2011 and an online training course EIA Online Training.  For more information on the online form and training please contact Liz Quimby-Fountain (Staff Development) 222389, E.Quimby-Fountain@lboro.ac.uk. 

For general advice on EIAs please contact Abida Akram (Staff Development Adviser, Equality & Diversity) or your Departmental Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator and/or your Departmental Human Resource Adviser for support.