How to Consider Equality in Policy Making: A 10-Step Guide for Public Bodies in England

In brief

A practical 10-step guide for public bodies to integrate equality considerations into policy development and decision-making. Covers: defining the aims, gathering evidence, assessing impact, considering alternatives, consultation, decision-making, publishing results, monitoring, and review.

Key provisions

• holding-1 — 10 sequential steps for equality-informed policy making: Sets out 10 sequential steps for equality-informed policy making, from initial scoping through evidence gathering, consultation, decision, implementation, and review.
• holding-2 — Evidence gathering and impact assessment methodology: Evidence gathering and impact assessment methodology: requires systematic collection of data on the likely impact of a policy on each protected characteristic.
• holding-3 — Consultation requirements: Consultation requirements: sets out who should be consulted, how, and at what stage in the policy-making process.

When relevant

Structuring equality impact assessments (EqIAs) for policies that affect trans employees or service users. The toolkit's EqIA/DPIA wizard will reference this methodology.