Spring Budget 2021: Housing, gender and Covid-19
A Pre Budget Briefing by the UK Women’s Budget Group on 'Housing, Gender, and Covid-19' - Spring 2021
UK Policy Briefing
This research analyses the use of Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) within local government budget processes.
Under the Public Sector Equality Duty, contained in the 2010 Equality Act, all public bodies in England, Scotland and Wales have to have ‘due regard’ to the impact of their policies on eliminating discrimination and harassment, promoting equality and fostering good relations through the lens of the nine protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) are a tool by which public bodies can do this by providing a means of systematically gathering and analysing evidence on the equalities impact of a decision.
This briefing by Dr Olumide Adisa and Fiona Costello analyses the use of EIAs within local government budget processes.
Key Points:
A Pre Budget Briefing by the UK Women’s Budget Group on 'Housing, Gender, and Covid-19' - Spring 2021
The WBG urges the Prime Minister to invest in the care economy for the economic recovery of the whole country.
The lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic is exposing and exacerbating another public health crisis: that of violence against women.