Equality Impact Assessment Initial Screening
This screening allows you to create a quick overview of a change in policy, procedure or service to assess the likely equality impacts on different groups of customers, service users and staff and to see if any low level action can be taken to mitigate the likely impact of a decision on a particular group.
An Equality Impact Assessment screening needs to be done on every report that goes to Cabinet. The screening will help you identify if you need to do a Full Equality Impact Assessment.
| Officers Involved in completing screening | |
| Officer completing Equality Screening | Donald Chalker, Principal Engineer - Transport Strategy and Development Control |
| Head of Service or Operational Director authorising Equality Screening |
Steve Grayer, Head of Highways and Transportation Strategy |
| Date screening completed: | 16 April 2019 |
| 1. Summary of Proposal | |
| Name of the proposed new or changed legislation, policy, strategy, project or service being assessed: |
L.B. Redbridge - Local Implementation Plan (LIP3) |
| Service Area: | Civic Pride |
| Budget Option: | N/A |
| Budget Reference: | N/A |
| Date proposal to be considered at Cabinet (if known): |
June 2019 |
| Brief description of policy / decision to be screened: |
The Local Implementation Plan (LIP) is a statutory document prepared under Section 145 of the GLA Act and sets out how the borough proposes to deliver the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) in its area, as well as contributing to other local and sub-regional goals. |
| Is this a new proposal? | Yes |
| If linked to previous years give details: | N/A |
| Are there any links or interdependencies to other services or organisations? |
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| On whom will the policy / decision impact? | Y Service users Y Staff Y Other public sector organisations Y Voluntary / community groups / trade unions Y Others, please specify below; Redbridge residents, businesses and visitors. The N.E. London sub-region. |
| Is the service related to health, care, safety, welfare, wellbeing needs of an individual/family? If yes, provide details |
No |
| Does the service work directly with ‘vulnerable people’ or groups with a ‘protected characteristic’? If yes, provide details |
No |
Please provide a brief description of the current service and proposed changes to service:
The L.B. Redbridge - Local Implementation Plan (LIP3) is the third LIP for the London Borough of Redbridge. It covers the same period as the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) published in March 2018 and it also takes account of the transport elements of the draft London Plan, and other relevant Mayoral and local policies.
The document sets out long terms goals and transport objectives for the London Borough of Redbridge for the next 20 years, a three-year programme of investment starting in 2019/20, and includes delivery proposals for the period 2019/20 - 2021/22 and the targets and outcomes the borough are seeking to achieve. A more detailed delivery plan is provided for the financial year 2019/20.
| 2. Service User/ Resident Profiling |
| The Redbridge LIP3 will impact on all residents, business and visitors to the Borough. |
| Profile: | Are any groups disproportionately impacted by the changes (who, how and why): |
| Age profile: | Are any age groups disproportionately impacted by the changes (who, how and why); • Cheap, independent travel of particular benefit to young and elderly. • Creation of safe, attractive street scene of particular importance to young and elderly. • Health benefits from improved air quality particularly important to young and elderly. • Creation of safe, secure transport network of particular importance to young and elderly. |
| Disability profile: | Are disabled people or those with certain disabilities disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Cheap, independent travel of particular benefit to people having disabilities. • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to people having disabilities. • Health benefits from improved air quality important to people having disabilities. • Creation of safe, secure transport network of particular importance to people having disabilities. |
| Race profile: | Are any ethnic groups disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to minority ethnic communities. • Creation of safe, secure transport network important to minority ethnic communities. |
| Religion or belief profile: | Are any faith groups disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to minority faith groups. • Creation of safe, secure transport network important to minority faith groups. |
| Gender profile: | Are male/female residents disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to women. • Creation of safe, secure transport network important to women. |
| Maternity or pregnancy: | Are pregnant women or breastfeeding mothers disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Health benefits from improved air quality important to pregnant women or breastfeeding mothers |
| Transgender profile: | Are transgender residents disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to transgender people. • Creation of safe, secure transport network important to transgender people. |
| Sexual Orientation profile: | Are heterosexual/ gay/ lesbian/ bisexual residents disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Creation of safe, attractive street scene important to LGBT people. • Creation of safe, secure transport network important to LGBT people |
| Marriage or Civil Partnership: | Are people who are married or who have entered into a civil partnership disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); No. |
| Socio-economics/ at risk groups profile: | Are any groups disproportionately impacted by the changes (how and why); • Cheap, independent travel of particular benefit to people on low incomes. |
| 3. Summary Grid |
| After reviewing the above information in the profiling section indicate likely impact on different groups in the grid below using the following definitions as a guide:
• Positive - Service extended, additional funding given or some other benefit to one or more of the groups • Low Adverse - Minor changes to services e.g. slight change in opening hours -- complete mitigating action section where actions can reduce or remove negative impact • Medium Adverse - Significant changes to the way services are delivered -- new eligibility criteria, increased costs. Full EQIA is required to manage the change • High Adverse - vulnerable groups, groups with specific protected characteristics impacted more than others. Major changes e.g. possible closure of service, new eligibility criteria leading to some people losing existing services, significant cost increase. |
| Possible impact on Service Users/ Residents | Positive | Low Adverse | Medium Adverse | High Adverse |
| Age | Y | |||
| Disabled People or Carers | Y | |||
| Race | Y | |||
| Religion (including no faith) | Y | |||
| Gender | Y | |||
| Maternity or pregnancy | Y | |||
| Transgender | Y | |||
| Sexual Orientation | Y | |||
| Marriage or Civil Partnership | Y | |||
| Other [e.g. living in poverty, children in care, homeless, carers, refugees] |
Y |
| 4. Screening Decision |
| Y Positive Impact – No further action required Low Impact – complete Mitigating Negative Impact (section 5) below Medium or Adverse Impact – complete a full Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) |
| Additional information |
| None |
| 5. Mitigating Negative Impact |
| Where groups are disproportionately affected please outline other options explored before deciding on this proposal: N/A |
| Mitigating Actions |
| What activities have you done or plan to do to try and mitigate impact on particular groups e.g. signposting service users to other services, partnership working etc. Include dates for planned/ completed mitigating action plans and Lead Officer. The plan must provide detail on the activities and dates for it to ensure compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty |
| Action | Anticipated Outcome |
Lead | Deadline | Actual Outcome |
Comments |
| N/A | |||||
| Next Steps | |
| Is a full Equality Impact Assessment required? | No. |
| If a full EQIA is not required, you are still legally required to monitor and review the proposed changes after implementation to check they work as planned and to screen for unexpected equality impacts. Please provide details of how you will monitor, evaluate or review your proposals and when the review will take place |
Annual LIP reporting process |
| Has a Mitigating Actions Plan been prepared? How is this proposed to be monitored? |
N/A |
| Has the screening been included with Cabinet papers? |
Yes. |
| Have arrangements been made to publish this screening? |
Yes. |
| Officers Involved in completing screening | |
| Officer completing Equality Screening | Donald Chalker, Principal Engineer - Transport Strategy and Development Control |
| Date submitted | 16 April 2019 |
| Head of Service sign off | I agree with the content and outcome of this screening. Steve Grayer, Head of Highways and Transportation Strategy |
| Date approved by Head of Service | 16 April 2019 |
