Impact? What impact?
P3 has developed a considerable amount of expertise in this area, and can provide a range of support and advice to assist organisations in undertaking such assessments in an effective and efficient way.
Our approach helps organisations to put impact assessments in perspective, and see that they can add value as an important part of embedding diversity and equality across the organsiation. Our practical advice shows that such assessments need not be time consuming and can be carried out as part of the mainstream work of an organisation.
What is an Impact Assessment?
Equality Impact Assessments are an integral part of current equality legislation that requires organisations to assess how what they do, or plan to do, may impact on particular equality groups. Impact assessment covers race, gender, disability, age, religion and faith, sexual orientation and transgender.
They are a way of anticipating the likely consequences on different communities of particular polices etc., making sure, as far as possible, that negative consequences are eliminated or minimised, and that opportunities for promoting equality and diversity are maximised.
Our approach
P3 can provide a range of advice and guidance on undertaking equality impact assessments:
- We have developed a framework and toolkit template that we can customise for clients to reflect their particular circumstances, which provides an effective framework and toolkit for carrying out assessments. We aim to cut out meaningless bureaucracy we emphasise common sense and a practical approach.
- Our training aims to demystify the process of carrying out impact assessments, and place them in the context of the work and day-to-day business of organisations and their staff.
- We work directly with staff to give them confidence in carrying out impact assessments, helping them to see the ‘positives’ in carrying out such assessments
- We advise on the most effective ways of carrying out assessments.
What we deliver
- We provide a range of services around impact assessment, including provision of advice/guidance on what you need to do to comply with the legal requirements of equality legislation.
- Provision of a framework and toolkit for carrying out impact assessments, customised to organisations and including assessment templates.
- Briefing/training for staff at all levels on carrying out impact assessments.
