Race Impact Assessment
Assessing impact on race equality: The
purpose of assessing race equality impact of policies is to determine whether there is any adverse impact
on different ethnic groups, and if so to take action, and also to consider whether the IPCC is taking
proportional steps to truly meet the spirit of its core value of diversity and promote race equality
in each individual policy.
The first step of the impact assessment process is screening a policy
to look at whether it is relevant to race equality. The most important outcome of this screening
is what consultation will be undertaken when assessing the policy.
- Full impact assessment with external and internal consultation
- Full impact assessment with internal consultation only
- Review and consideration of monitoring options
The
IPCC has provided staff with guidance notes (pdf 34k) for carrying out a race impact
assessment of a policy. The most important aspect is encouraging staff to really think through
the different parts of the general duty and how they apply to individual areas of work. You should
use the impact assessment template (word doc 28k) to set out all the relevant information
and issues arising. This will be used to quality control the impact assessments and feed-back to consultees
the actions taken as a result of their input.
As part of developing these systems, race impact assessment was trialed on procurement
policies, see the Sample worked Race Impact Assessment (pdf 47k) on procurement
policies. The assesement process informed subsequent guidance and contracts:
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