The Council has duties to set out its arrangements to assess the relevance and likely impact of existing and proposed policies, functions and practices on particular groups or sectors of the community in relation to equality.
The Council aims to embed equality and fairness into all its activities and will assess the relevance of its policies to all equality strands (on the grounds of race, disability, gender, age, religion and belief, and sexual orientation). Where appropriate, we will carry out full equality impact assessments as a means to ensure that objective.
These assessments are primarily to identify if our policies have a potentially discriminatory and negative impact on any particular group of people; to take action to ensure that any negative impact is removed or mitigated and to demonstrate that we take steps to promote equality.
The Council will regularly update the list of Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs) that have been carried out.
Highland Council EQIAs:
Rent Arrears Policy Housing Service (PDF)
Housing Allocations Policy (PDF)
Employee Survey 2007 (PDF)
Modernising Services to Older People
Review of the Provision of Equipment and Adaptations to service Users
Public Performance Survey 2008
Inward Migration Support Strategy (PDF)