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Equality Impact Assessment - How to use the guidance

The guidance is a practical resource to support institutions in equality impact assessing strategic areas of work and to consider the alignment and embedding of equality priorities across a range of institutional activities.

This guidance, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), was developed by Advance HE in collaboration with several Scottish college and university partners.
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Strategic Equality Impact Assessment

 
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Equality Impact Assessment in Scotland
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Practical guidance for Scottish colleges and universities
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How to use the guidance

 
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Key information for leaders and other specific staff groups
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A model process for undertaking strategic EIA
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Summary of conclusions and key recommendations
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Practical tools and information

 
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How the guidance can help your institution

The guidance includes information on:

The guidance has been devised to enable users to directly access areas of interest; there are also some suggested prompts where particular information may be of more relevance to specific types of staff.   

EIA is an activity that should not be undertaken in isolation, nor by one member of staff alone.  It should be undertaken by teams of relevant staff with an interest in and knowledge of the area of work, policy and practice, where collective and pooled expertise enables more effective decision making. Institutions may therefore find it helpful to cascade the link to this guidance to a range of staff within their college or university, to support a shared understanding of the key issues in undertaking EIA at a strategic level and to provide access to the practical tools available.