Submission to the Women and Equalities Committee on Covid-19
Submission to the Women and Equalities Select Committee inquiry on the impact of Covid-19 on groups with protected characteristics.
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.
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Submission to the Women and Equalities Select Committee inquiry on the impact of Covid-19 on groups with protected characteristics.
The WBG calls for the Government to #MakeWomenVisible by creating strong structures to engage with the women's and wider equalities sector.
Lucy Szablewska reflects on her experience at the first ever WBG ECN Annual Conference and on the role of qualitative research to gender budgeting.
Blog by Eliska Bujokova for our ECN 'Women and the Economy' series