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Executive Decision Report

Redesign of Leicester's Children's Centres

Decision to be taken by: Executive Decision to be taken on: 30th July 2013

Lead director: Elaine McHale

Useful information Ward(s) affected: City Wide Report author: Ann Carter Author contact details: 0116 2294361 Report version number: V2.4

1. Summary1.1 This report seeks approval to redesign our children’s centre provision across the City into a

streamlined structure of 6 children centre clusters as service delivery points for children, parents and carers.

1.2 All existing children’s centre facilities will continue to provide access to support and services and will be aligned to the Council’s proposed six neighbourhoods.

1.3 The new delivery model will protect services for the most vulnerable and maintain and continue to improve the model of Early Help to children aged 0-12 and their families.

1.4 The proposed restructure conforms to the Authorities legal requirement to provide a network of Children’s Centre provision.

1.5 The proposal will generate savings of at least £3.4M by reducing management, supplier and staff costs. This partially offsets the reduction in the Early Intervention Grant of £4.4M.

2. Recommendations2.1 That the principles underpinning the proposals to re-model the children’s centres provision

are supported. (Detailed in section 3.)

2.2 That the necessary steps are now taken to bring in to LA management the seven centres currently delivered by voluntary sector partners.

2.3 That the mandatory statutory consultation upon changes to children’s centre organisation and service delivery is commenced.

2.4 That agreement is given to progress the recommended option to re-configure six new children’s centres cluster network areas.

3. Supporting Information Including Options Considered

3.1 Current Position 3.1.1 Leicester has 23 children’s centres, providing integrated preventative services to children

and their families from pre-birth to age 12 across the City. Funding for this provision, previously from a dedicated government grant, has been incorporated into the Early Intervention Grant as part of funding for wider services but has been significantly reduced. Local Authorities across the Country have had to respond to this change, and Leicester’s approach seeks to protect provision as far as possible within the reduced funding.

3.1.2 Currently, 7 of the 23 children’s centres are contracted out and are delivered by 2 voluntary sector providers and the rest are directly provided by LCC.

3.1.3 Appendix 1 shows where the children’s centres are located in the City, and who currently delivers them.

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3.1.4 Appendix 2 gives background information on the LA’s legal duty to provide integrated services for young children in their area through Children’s Centres.

3.1.5 Appendix 3 provides details of the activities and interventions delivered by children’s centres.

3.2 Principles Informing the Approach to Remodeling Provision 3.2.1 The following principles for the delivery of Children’s Centre provision are proposed, in

line with the vision for the children and young people of Leicester articulated in the Children and Young Peoples Plan 2011-14 priorities.

a. Maintain a model of delivery that ensures every child in Leicester is able to accessprovision and that all vulnerable children have access to targeted support.

b. Target resources to ensure access for children in the most deprived areas.

c. Comply with the Local Authorities statutory requirement to ensure sufficient Children’sCentre provision to meet the level of need.

d. Ensure provision is high quality, effective, with measureable outcomes.

e. Maintain the integrity of the coordinated model of provision across the City so that no childfalls through the ‘safety net’.

f. Maintain partnership working and co-location arrangements.

g. Maintain a community presence of services for children and families across the City thatprovides the on-going potential to both maintain and develop integration of services in thefuture.

h. Increase the shared use of buildings with both other LCC services, particularly servicesfor 13-19 year old young people, partners and local communities.

3.3 Previous Children’s Centre Decisions by Council Executive 3.3.1 In February 2013 a proposal that 7 children’s centres would be converted to “satellites”,

producing cost savings of £1.7M was presented to Full Council. The decision taken by the City Mayor was that the progression of this proposal would be subject to further executive approval. Further reductions in funding from central government through the former Early Intervention Grant have meant that the revised model now being presented makes the necessary further savings whilst continuing to be accessible and effective in making a difference to children’s lives.

3.3.2 A further element of the February 2013 proposal was to bring in-house the 7 Children’s Centres currently delivered by Action for Children and Barnardos. A mixed model of delivery of children’s centres was established when Sure Start Children’s Centres were originally introduced in Leicester to promote innovation and the development of best practice across the City. However, the proposed model requires children’s centre sites to operate as one team within cluster network areas with shared management, and removes the duplication of senior management costs.

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3.4 Recommendation 3.4.1 It is therefore proposed that the necessary steps are now taken to end these contracts

and bring the 7 centres named in Appendix 1 into LA management.

3.5 Model Going Forward 3.5.1 The proposed model:

a. Will retain all 23 current children’s centre sites as delivery centres where children, parentsand carers can continue to access integrated services.

b. Reconfigures provision to 6 children centre cluster network areas delivering services froma group of children centre sites in that area.

c. Enable the group of children centre sites in a cluster network area to work together to planand deliver services with greater join up of provision and sharing of management functionwhich brings efficiencies.

d. Enable greater flexibility in the deployment of staff and resource across the children’scentre cluster network area in response to levels of need which vary over time.

e. Recognises that there will be reduced levels of activities delivered in areas of less need,and enables vulnerable children and families in those areas to continue to receive supportand services.

f. Works more extensively in children’s centre cluster network areas with other agencies andcommunity groups to enable them to deliver activities through children’s centre sites,together contributing to improving children’s outcomes.

g. Increases opportunities for local people to engage in volunteering activities to support thedelivery of services.

h. Ensures that families in greatest need continue to be able to access support and servicesfrom any of the centres of choice within or across areas.

i. Reconfigures children’s centres reach areas in the city.

3.5.2 Appendix 4 shows where the children’s centres are located in each children’s centres cluster network area. The naming of the six children’s centre cluster network areas will be as in the following example. Beaumont Leys Children’s Centre will be known as ‘North West Leicester Children’s Centre Cluster - Beaumont Leys.’

We will do this by: 3.5.3 Greater join up of the delivery of services across children centre cluster network areas

To achieve more effective use of resource, and more effective targeting of the right services for the right child at the right time.

Services and activities will be jointly planned and delivered across all the children centre buildings in a children’s centre cluster network area dependent on needs at local community level. Where there is less need, opening hours will be planned in response to local preferences and when local families access services most which will bring savings in associated administration and premises costs.

3.5.4 Greater targeting of activities There will be a reduction in the amount of activity and intervention that can be directly delivered across the city by LA staff for children and families. Provision will need to be more highly targeted to those children most vulnerable to poor outcomes, and there will need to be consideration of which activities should be prioritised for delivery in each local

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community depending on levels of need. This is in line with current government and Ofsted guidance.

3.5.5 Reshaping the staffing structure To deliver the proposed model of delivery and savings there will be a reduction in management and front line staff. It is envisaged that the level of reduction in management and staffing will be in the region of 40%. The number of staff in respective roles will be finalised on conclusion of the consultation process.

3.5.6 More engagement of communities and partner agencies More opportunities for local people, community groups and partner agencies to deliver and contribute to the delivery of activities in and around children centre sites will be explored together with dialogue at local level with partners and community groups to identify further ways to work with children’s’ centres to address the priority needs for children in different communities in line with the C&YP plan.

3.5.7 We will continue to develop an integrated approach across the age ranges for children, young people and their families in network areas. There will be greater opportunity for shared use of buildings to support changes in how Youth Services are delivered, and making better use of Children’s Centre buildings in the evenings and weekends for targeted work with young people. Work will also be progressed to further develop joined up working with community services within the Council in relation to neighbourhood working currently being consulted on through the Community Services organisational review, as well as working to explore further opportunities to engage partner agencies and local community groups to deliver activity in and around children’s centres.

3.5.8 Seeking partner contributions to running costs The numbers of Health Visitors is set to rise significantly from September 2013. As result of this, the numbers of Health visitors located in children centre sites will raise and discussions are commencing with partners in Public Health to secure a regular contribution to the running costs of children centre provision.

3.6 Consultation Process 3.6.1 There is a statutory duty, when proposing changes to children’s centre

services, to consult with local families, children’s centre staff, advisory boards and service providers. It is proposed that a 6 week consultation process will be undertaken for the proposed community linked children centre buildings.

3.6.2 On-line questionnaires and face to face individual and group feedback opportunities will be used to seek views from those affected by the proposed changes to inform the final model. Appendix 5 shows the proposed consultation questionnaire schedule.

3.7 Implementation of the New Model It is proposed that an organisational review to re-configure the workforce is commenced as soon as the voluntary sector children’s centre have been brought in house, to start partway through the public consultation phase so that the two processes dovetail. Any changes to staffing arising from the public consultation will be implemented through the organisational review.

3.8 Implementation Timeline A full project plan is available on request with key timelines being a follows

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6 week consultation period Week 1-6

Response to consultation published and implementation agreed week 6-8

Implement new children’s centre cluster network areas, and reconfigure Children’s centres into the proposed model. week 9

Undertake HR processes to reconfigure workforce week 6- 26

4. Details of ScrutinyA commitment has been made to share the development of this re-design with Scrutiny during the consultation process.

5. Financial, Legal and Other Implications

5.1 Financial Implications The 2013/14 budget, agreed by Council in February 2013, included a proposal to make a saving of £1.7m from 2014/15 onwards from re-organising the children’s Centres. This proposal extends those savings by a further £1.7m giving total savings of £3.4m. There will be a reduction in staffing of approximately 100FTEs, 40% of the service.

There is an assumption within the proposals that there will be an on-going contribution of approximately £160k from the Public Health budget from 2015/16 to contribute towards the running costs of the centres used by health visitors and midwives. The budget for the commissioning of health visits will transfer from 2015/16 to the local Authority. For 2014/15 we would need to seek a contribution directly from the NHS.

The additional savings of £1.7m will make a contribution towards the £4.4m cut to the Early Intervention Grant which the Department needs to fully fund from 2014/15. Martin Judson, Head of Finance

5.2 Legal Implications By virtue of section 5A of the Child Care Act 2006, Local Authorities are under a duty to make sufficient provision of Children’s Centres to meet local need. This is a statutory duty placed on a Local Authority which is supported by statutory guidance (Sure Start Children’s centres 2013). A failure to provide sufficient provision, i.e. having no centres or less centres then required to meet local need and or meet adequate standards (as referred to above), would result in a legal challenge based upon the governing legislation. Section 5E of the Child Care Act 2006 outlines the duty placed upon a Local Authority to consider providing services through a children’s centre.

This report details the current financial challenges faced by the Local Authority in respect of meeting its statutory obligations for children. It highlights proposals for the future delivery of service provision in a way which will fulfil such duties in a cost effective way. When considering any significant change in the way in which a Local Authority provides services it is required to

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have due regard to its public law duties as stipulated under Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 and specifically to section 5D of the Child Care Act 2006 regarding Children’s centres and the duty to consult. The proposal for consultation as outlined in this report would take into account the relevant considerations and thus any future decision making would need to take into account the outcome of the consultation to ensure that it was fair, reasonable and proportionate and ensure compliance with the Council’s legal duty.

Separate legal advice has been sought regarding the consultation and employment law implications following from this report. Pretty Patel, Principal Solicitor, Social Care & Safeguarding. (Ext 37 1457)

5.3 Climate Change and Carbon Reduction implications No climate change implications.

5.4 Equality Impact Assessment An Equality Impact Assessment has been commenced and is attached in Appendix 6. This will be further developed and revised in light of the feedback through consultation.

6. Background Information and Other Papers:Childcare Act 2006 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/contents Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/22/contents Child Poverty Commission Action Plan – http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/education-lifelong-learning/parental-support/child-poverty/ Children’s Centres Statutory Guidance, April 2013 - http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/s/childrens%20centre%20stat%20guidance%20april%202013.pdf Children and Young People’s Plan 2011-2014 http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/social-care-health/young-peoplefamilies/support-services/childrenstrust/childrensplan/

7. Summary of Appendices:Appendix 1 Map of 23 children’s centres and who currently delivers them

Appendix 2 Legal Definition of a Children’s Centre

Appendix 3 Interventions and Activities

Appendix 4 Proposed Children’s Centres Cluster Network Areas

Appendix 5 Consultation Questionnaire

Appendix 6 Equality Impact Assessment

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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/contents

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/22/contents

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/education-lifelong-learning/parental-support/child-poverty/

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/education-lifelong-learning/parental-support/child-poverty/

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/s/childrens%20centre%20stat%20guidance%20april%202013.pdf

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/s/childrens%20centre%20stat%20guidance%20april%202013.pdf

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/social-care-health/young-peoplefamilies/support-services/childrenstrust/childrensplan/

http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council-services/social-care-health/young-peoplefamilies/support-services/childrenstrust/childrensplan/

8. Is this a private report (If so, please indicated the reasons and state why it isnot in the public interest to be dealt with publicly)? No 9. Is this a “key decision”?Yes 10. If a key decision please explain reasonThe proposals set out in this paper are deemed as constituting a key decision because the will impact on communities across the City, and will incur significant reductions in expenditure.

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Appendix 1

Appendix 1 (continued)

Children centre name Number Delivered By

Beaumont Leys and Stocking Farm 1 LCC Belgrave and Rushey Mead 2 LCC Northfields and West Humberstone 3 LCC St Mathews 4 Action for Children Highfields 5 Action for Children New parks 6 LCC West End 7 LCC Braunstone 8 Action for Children Thurnby Lodge 9 LCC Saffron 10 Barnardo’s Eyres Monsell and Gilmorton 11 LCC Braunstone Frith 12 LCC Woodbridge 13 LCC Bewcastle 14 Action for Children Netherhall 15 Action for Children North Evington 16 LCC Rowlatts Hill 17 LCC Rowley Fields 18 LCC Lansdowne 19 LCC Avebury Meadows 20 LCC Mayfield 21 LCC St Saviours 22 LCC Hamilton 23 Barnardo’s

Appendix 2

The Purpose and Legal Definition of a Children’s Centre

The Childcare Act 2006 put into place a duty on the LA to deliver services in an integrated way to improve the well-being of young children in their area and reduce inequalities between those children.

The legal definition of a Children’s Centre builds on this and is enshrined within the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 as:

i. a place or group of places which is managed by or on behalf of the LAwith the purpose of securing early childhood services that are availablein an integrated manner

ii. through which early childhood services are made available

iii. at which activities for young children are provided.

Appendix 3

Activities and Interventions provided in and through Children’s Centres

Children’s Centres:-

• Provide a ‘safety net’ so that children who are vulnerable to poor outcomes, includingpossible abuse and neglect, are recognised, known and receive timely support and services

• Promote children’s readiness for school, with a specific focus on children at risk of poorlearning outcomes.

• Reduce child poverty and the impact of poverty – this is a key mayoral pledge and Children’scentres feature throughout the Child Poverty Commission action plan as delivering on keypriorities.

• The LA has a legal duty to make ‘sufficient provision of Children’s Centres to meet local need.The Statutory Guidance issued by the Department of Education in April 2013 states.

• ‘LA’s should ensure that a network of Children’s Centres is accessible to all families withyoung children in their area.’

The question of what level of provision is ‘sufficient‘ should be considered in light of a number of factors, specifically the numbers of children aged 0-5 to be reached and levels of need.

The key factors that OFSTED will judge individual children’s centres against will be:

o Effective leadership and governanceo Accessibility to local parents and ability to know about the children aged 0-5 in their

areao Effective impact on improving children’s outcomes

• Enable co-location and joint working arrangements of staff from Health, Local Authority andpartner agencies including Health Visitors, Midwives, Job Centre Plus and Library staff.

• Enable delivery of Common Assessment Framework co-ordinating support for families.

Currently, Childrens Centres provide:

• Early learning support to children aged 0-5• Stay & Play sessions for children and parents – promoting learning and identifying children

and families who need additional support.• Targeted groups for parents of children between the ages of 0 -3 to promote early learning

and language development.• Individual support to children and parents to support learning in the home environment.• Targeted work with children at risk of falling into the bottom 20% through schools in

foundation stage.• Personal Education Plans for Looked After Children• Multi-agency Development checks for 2 year olds.• Referrals to specialist speech and language services.• Transitions support into school.• National Bookstart programme.• Support to the Child care sector to improve quality of settings

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Support to parents through the delivery of:

• Parenting Programmes for parents with children pre-birth to 12 years.• Foster carer groups• Early Support for children with disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs.• Family Support and intervention in the home.• Delivery of Common Assessment Framework (CAF’s)• Support in relation to Domestic Violence.• Signposting to wider services as needed

Safeguard and promote the well-being of children through the delivery of:

• Funded sessional respite childcare• Support and intervention to Children assessed as in need/Looked after children & children

on child protection plans.• Monitoring/Observations/assessments of children’s needs• Individual support and intervention to families in the home including Children In Need.• CAF’s• Early Support co-ordination service for disabled children• Stay Safe sessions• Advice/guidance eg safety in the home• Support to access wider services as needed.

Contribute to reducing child poverty and developing communities through delivery of:

• Supporting parents into training and employment• Support parents to participate in service development through Parents Forums• Support parents’ involvement in Neighbourhood Advisory Boards• Volunteer training and support to volunteers• Support to the child care sector in relation to sustainability• Support to access a range of childcare provision• Promoting the use of Children’s Centre by disadvantaged groups.• Adult Learning Support• Job Centre plus links to support parents/carers into employment.

Proposed Children's Centre

Delivery Areas

Area 4

North West Children's Centre Cluster Beaumont Leys Site (Beaumont Leys)

Bewcastle Site (Abbey)

AveburyMeadows Site (Fosse)

North West

Children's

Centre

Cluster

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Area 5

North East Children's Centre Cluster Belgrave Site (Latimer)

Woodbridge Site (Rushey Mead)

Netherhall Site (Humberstone & Hamilton) Hamilton Site (Humberstone & Hamilton)

North East Children's

Centre

Cluster

Area 3

West

Children's

Centre

Cluster

Central

Children

Centre

Cluster

East

Children's

Centre

Cluster

West Children's Centre Cluster Braunstone Site (Braunstone & Rowley Fields)

New Parks Site (New Parks)

RowleyFieldsSite(Braunstone &RowleyFields)

Braunstone Frith Site (New Parks)

West End Site (Westcotes)

South

Children's

Centre

Cluster

Area 6

East Children's Centre Cluster Northfield's Site (Charnwood)

Thurby Lodge Site (Thurncourt)

Rowlatts Hill Site (Coleman)

St Saviours Site (Charnwood)

Area 2

South Children's Centre

Cluster Saffron Site (Freeman)

Eyres Monsell Site (Eyres Monsell)

Lansdowne Site (Freeman)

Area 1

Central Children's Centre Cluster St Matthews Site (Spinney Hills)

Highfield's Site (SpinneyHills)

North Evington Site (Spinney Hills)

Mayfield Site (Stoneygate)

Consultation Leicester’s Children’s Centres: Looking to the FutureIntroduction Leicester City Council currently has 23 children’s centres providing services to families and children across the city. The children’s centres deliver a range of activities and services which include group activities for children and parents/carers. These activities and services focus on learning, health, well-being and community engagement, and are delivered in the home, the community and schools.

Why are we consulting? Following the government’s most recent spending review announcement, the grant that includes funding for children’s centres has been reduced by £4.4 million. In order to protect services for the most vulnerable and maintain some universal services, the council now needs to make changes to the way children’s centres are run.

What does this mean for Leicester? We want to create an affordable network of children’s centres, this can be achieved by:

• Keeping all 23 children’s centres open as ‘delivery sites’, allowing children, parents andcarers to continue accessing services

• Clustering children’s centres into 6 groups. See map showing proposed children’scentre cluster network areas

• Employing flexible staff and resource arrangements across the 23 delivery buildings• Reducing management costs at the centres.• Working with local community groups and agencies to enable them to deliver activities

through children’s centres that will contribute to children’s development and well-being.• Tailoring opening hours to when families use them most, with some centres having

reduced opening times. • Ensuring that families in greatest need are able to access support and services from any

of the centres as they choose• Recognising that there will be reduced levels of activities delivered in areas of less need,

whilst ensuring that vulnerable children and families in those areas continue to receivesupport and services.

What we are consulting on? • The times that families prefer to use children’s centre support and services• Where families prefer to access their children’s centre services• The potential effects of children’s centre area changes• Which children’s centre activities families prefer and find most useful• Whether the proposed changes present any particular problems for service user groups

wishing to access services or activities.

What will change as a result? We will look to you for your views in delivering an affordable children’s centre network, and incorporate your concerns and aspirations into the decisions to the maximum extent possible.

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Section 1 In this section we would like you to tell us about the children’s centres and services you currently use:

1. Do you have a child under the age of 12 living in your household?

□ 0 – 4+ years □5 – 12 years

□ I am or someone in my household is pregnant

□ I do not have a child under the age of 12 living in my household, but have used children’scentres previously?

□ None of the above (please go to Section 2 question 5)

2. Have you used a children’s centre or children’s centre services?

□Yes □No (please go to Section 2)3. Which Leicester children’s centre do you most frequently attend? (please tick onecentre)

□Avebury Meadows □Highfields □ Rowley Fields

□Bewcastle □Landsdowne □ Saffron

□Belgrave □Mayfield □ St Matthews

□ Beaumont Leys □Netherhall □ St Saviours

□ Braunstone □New Parks □ Thurnby Lodge

□ Braunstone Frith □ North Evington □West End

□ Eyres Monsell □ Northfields □Woodbridge

□ Hamilton □ Rowlatts Hill □ None4. Which other Leicester children’s centre do you use? (please tick all that apply or moveto Q6 If none apply)

□Avebury Meadows □Highfields □ Rowley Fields

□Bewcastle □Landsdowne □ Saffron

□Belgrave □Mayfield □ St Matthews

□ Beaumont Leys □Netherhall □ St Saviours

□ Braunstone □New Parks □ Thurnby Lodge

□ Braunstone Frith □ North Evington □West End

□ Eyres Monsell □ Northfields □Woodbridge

□ Hamilton □ Rowlatts Hill □ None

5. Why do you attend these other children’s centre(s)?

6. How often do you attend Leicester children’s centres? (please tick one answer)

□1 – 2 times per week □2 – 3 times per week □4 – 5 times per week □once per month □less than once per month 7. When do you attend Leicester children’s centres? (please tick all that apply)

□weekday mornings □weekday afternoons □weekday evenings □Saturday mornings □Saturday afternoons 8. Which children’s centre activities do you use? (please tick all that apply)

□ Adult Learning courses □Midwifery clinics □ Volunteering

□ Antenatal classes □Peekaboo □ Family support

□ Child development checks □Small bodies big voices □ Early Support

□ Saturday play sessions □Stay and play sessions □ Parenting programmes

□ Discovering babies □Dads and male carers activities□ Book and toy library

□ Family learning courses □Health visitor clinics □ Preschool/childcare

□ Breastfeeding support □ Member of Parent Carer Forum and/or Advisory Board

□Talking toddlers □ other (please specify)………………………………………

9. Which children’s centre services have you found most helpful to you/your child? (please tick all that apply)








□Talking toddlers □ other (please specify)……………………………………… 10. Please tell us how you feel that children’s centres have helped you and your child (please tick all that apply)

Children’s centres have…

Strongly agree

1

Agree 2

Don’t know 3

Disagree 4

Strongly disagree 5

Given me the chance to meet other parents/carers

A

Given my child the opportunity to socialise with other children

B

Supported me with my parenting skills

C

Helped me to support my child’s learning

D

Helped with training/ employment/volunteering

E

Given me more confidence

F

Helped me to understand how to make healthier choices for me and my child

G

Given me the chance to learn new things

H

Other (please specify)

Section 2 In this section we would like you to tell us how the proposed changes might affect you and how you would like to access children’s centres in the future. 1. What would be the most important time for you to be able to attend children’s centres? (please tick one)

□weekday mornings □weekday afternoons □weekday evenings □Saturday mornings □Saturday afternoons

2. Will the proposed changes children’s centres change how often you use your usual centre? (please tick one)

□No difference □will use it less □will use it more 3. Which three services are most important to you for the future? Rank your top three choices in order of priority, 1 being the most important, 2 being second and 3 being third most important.








□Talking toddlers □ other (please specify)………………………………………… 4. Are there any barriers that stop you using children’s centre services?

5. Will the change in children’s centre network areas affect you? (see children’s centre area map)

□Yes □No □Neither □Unsure If Yes, in what way will the change in the areas affect you? 6. Would you like further involvement in children’s centres? (for example would you be interested in):

□ Supporting the delivery of children’s centre services?

□ Coordinating group activities that help other people?

□ Getting involved in devising and delivering services with other parents?

□ other (please specify)………………………………………………………………………… Do you have any other comments?

Section 3 In this section we would like you to tell us about yourself: The information you provide will be kept in accordance with terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 and will only be used for the purpose of monitoring. Your details will not be passed on to any other individual, organisation or group. Leicester City Council is the data controller for the information on this form for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

1. Are you a resident of Leicester City? οYes 1 ο No 2

2. If yes, please tell us your postcode: ……………………………………………………..

3. Are you male or female? οMale ο Female 2 4. Please tell us how old you are?

5. Do you have caring responsibility for a child/children under 12? οYes 1 ο No 2

6. How old are the children under the age of 12 living in your household?

0 – 1 year□1 1- 2 years □2 2-3 years □3 3-4 years □4 4 -5 years□5

5-6 years □6 7 -8 years□7 8 - 12 years□8

7. Are you a lone parent?

ο Yes 1 ο No 2

8. How would you describe your ethnic background? (please tick one box only)

Under 20

20 – 25 26 - 30 31 - 35

36 – 40

41 – 45 46 - 50 Over 50

Asian/Asian British Indian Chinese

Pakistani Mixed Race/Dual Heritage

White & Black Caribbean

Bangladeshi White & Black African

Other Asian background White & Asian

Black/Black British Caribbean Other mixed background

Somali White British British Other African Irish

9. How would you describe your employment status?

□ Employed full time □ Employed part time □ Self employed □ Unemployed

□ Student □ other (please specify)……………………………

10. Do you consider yourself to be a disabled person? Yes 1 No 2 Prefer not to say 3

(The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) defines a person as disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities and has lasted or is likely to last for at least 12 months. Since 2005 people with HIV, cancer, multiple sclerosis (MS) and severe disfigurement are covered by the DDA) Thank you for providing this information, your feedback is important to us. Please call 0116 454 1650 if you would like to talk to someone about the questionnaire.

Other Black background European

Appendix 6

Equality Impact Assessment for Service changes / Budget proposals

WHAT IS AN EIA?

An EIA is a tool which will help you assess whether there are any positive or negative equality impacts on people affected by proposed changes. This EIA form is for use in two circumstances (service changes and budget proposals):-

(a) Service change involves redesigning or reshaping, (and in some cases the removal of) current service provision – whether directly provided by Council officers or commissioned by the Council for provision by an external provider.

(b) Budget proposals should arise from service changes that you are considering throughout the year in light of the current financial climate. The EIA for budget proposals should cover the same issues as considered for service changes.

Our public sector equality duty requires us to ensure that we do not discriminate against any protected group or person with protected characteristics (see below) covered by the Equality Act 2010 when taking decisions that affect them. Potential negative impacts that we disregard or ignore could mean discrimination. We also have a duty to actively promote positive impacts that advance equality of opportunity. The protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010 are:

• Age• Disability• Gender reassignment• Pregnancy and maternity• Race• Religion or belief• Sex• Sexual orientation.

The EIA template has a series of questions that you need to answer in order to identify any positive or negative equality impacts arising from the work you are doing. If there are negative impacts, this does not mean we cannot go ahead. Decision makers must have “due regard” to the findings and consider (if they do decide to go ahead) whether any mitigating actions can be taken to address negative impacts.

WHY IS AN EIA REQUIRED?

An EIA helps us assess whether we are meeting our public sector equality duty: eliminating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity.

For example: Providing equality of access to services or other opportunities (such as employment related issues) because of barriers some groups may experience which may not be in place for others (language, information, or location).

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The action plan identifies what steps we can reasonably take as a consequence of the EIA findings.

An EIA also enables us to identify where we do not have the data or information necessary to equality impact a decision. The EIA action plan enables us to map out how and when this data gap will be addressed.

WHEN DO WE NEED AN EIA?

The first thing to do is to assess whether there is any equality impact. This can be done by filling in a screening questionnaire as soon as you start your project/report. Answer the screening questions in order to determine whether an EIA is needed.

HOW IS AN EIA CARRIED OUT?

Before you start: If you are not sure whether you need to do an EIA, fill in the screening questionnaire to determine whether you need to complete one. The screening questionnaire is not obligatory, but will help.

What to do: When an EIA is required:

Step 1 The proposal This part is at the start of the planning process. It sets out the service user profile, the proposed change to the service, and potential equality impacts arising as a result of the proposal.

Step 2 Consultation This part highlights the outcome of consultation with service stakeholders about the service change proposal and likely equality impacts.

Step 3 The recommendation The final part of the EIA identifies any changes made to the original proposal in Step 2 as a result of consultation and further consideration.

Completing the form requires you to consider the impact on service users, with the exception of a single question about staff. In order to assess the equality impact of staffing changes, complete the separate EIA template for organisational reviews which presents the ‘before’ and ‘after’ staff profiles of services affected.

NB Any Actions you identify through completing this EIA, you must add to the Action Plan at the end.

Appendix 6

Equality Impact Assessment for service changes / budget proposals

Name of service Young Peoples Service

Lead officer and Contact details

Ann Carter 229 4361 Kay Jaques 229 4390

List of other(s) involved

Equality officer: Finance officer:

What is this EIA about? (Please tick)

Budget proposal for existing service or service contract to achieve savings √

Budget proposal for new or additional service expenditure

Commissioning a new service or service contract

Changing or removing an existing service or service contract √

Step 1: The proposal (how you propose to change the service)

Question 1: What is the proposal/proposed change?

The proposal is to redesign children’s centre provision across the City to streamline the structure into 6 children centre clusters, whilst retaining all current children’s centre sites as service delivery points for children, parents and carers.

This will enable children, parents and carers to continue to access support and services, whilst reducing management and staffing costs,and cluster network areas will be realigned.

The new delivery model will protect services for the most vulnerable and maintain and continue to improve the model of Early Help to children aged 0-12 and their families whilst achieving savings required through reductions in government grant funding for early prevention services.

The redesigned provision will include a reduction in opening hours in centres with lower levels of need and a reduction in management and staffing compliments of approximately 40%. This will require the remaining officer capacity in the network area to work in a more targeted way across neighbourhoods.

Further savings are proposed through the removal of the duplication of management costs by bringing in house 7 Children’s Centres that are currently delivered through contracting


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arrangements with voluntary sector partners. The Council would assume management responsibility for the Centres concerned.

• All 23 children’s centres will continue as delivery buildings, where children, parentsand carers can continue to access integrated services

• Flexibile deployment of staff and resource across the 23 children centre deliverysites:

• Reduced staff to reflect these changes• Working more extensively in network areas with other agencies and community

groups to enable them to deliver activities through children’s centres that will contribute to children’s development and well-being.

• Ensuring that families in greatest need continue to be able to access support andservices from any of the centres as they choose, both within the network area, oracross network area boundaries.

• Recognising that there will be reduced levels of activities delivered in areas of lessneed, but vulnerable children and families in those areas will continue to receivesupport and services.

Who will it affect and how will they likely be affected?

This proposal will affect children aged between the ages of 0-12, predominately in the 0-5 age range, and their parents and carers. There will be a reduction in the level of activities delivered directly by the LA in areas of less deprivation, with activities streamlined to the needs of the children in local communities. This will mean that activities will need to be targeted to those children and families most vulnerable to poor outcomes. Families will be able to access some services from other Children’s Centres in the children centre cluster area. Outreach services to families, such as home learning support for young children and family support will continue to be delivered to families who live in the reach areas of the proposed satellite centres, but this will also need to become more targeted to those most in need.


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Children affected Leicester City has 24,858 children 0 – 4+ years olds, 20,638 (83%) of these have accessed Children’s Centre services in the last 12 month period. The table below shows the numbers of children who have accessed provision through the 23 children’s centres and the percentage reach aged 0-4+ in the City.

Children's Centre

No of children aged 0-

4+

No of children

aged 5-12 years

Cumulative no of children aged 0-4+ from 1 June

'12 - 31 May '13 reached

% Reached

aged 0-4+

Avebury Meadows 984 1296 739 75.10 Beaumont Leys 879 1229 657 74.74 Belgrave 1317 2183 1345 102.13 Bewcastle 1044 1394 903 86.49 Braunstone 1001 1512 956 95.50 Braunstone Frith 858 1227 768 89.51 Eyres Monsell 1160 1652 801 69.05 Hamilton 1133 1498 951 83.94 Highfields 1054 1412 925 87.76 Lansdowne 1247 1505 1026 82.28 Mayfield 1226 2041 1050 85.64 Netherhall 490 757 484 98.78 New Parks 1981 2312 1544 77.94 North Evington 1708 3063 1192 69.79 Northfields 1352 2093 958 70.86 Rowlatts Hill 1015 1579 830 81.77 Rowley Fields 796 966 714 89.70 Saffron 1283 2115 942 73.42 St Matthews 613 874 639 104.24 St Saviours 946 1450 779 82.35 Thurnby Lodge 852 1314 764 89.67 West End 1085 1082 904 83.32 Woodbridge 834 1395 767 91.97


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Parents/carers affected There are 55,252 parents/cares currently registered with the Children’s Centres.

Children's Centre Total Parents/Carers Registered Avebury Meadows 1568 Beaumont Leys 2083 Belgrave 3031 Bewcastle 1868 Braunstone 3200 Braunstone Frith 2478 Eyres Monsell & Gilmorton 1720 Hamilton 1985 Highfields 3115 Lansdowne 2058 Mayfield 3254 Netherhall 852 New Parks 5172 North Evington 2650 Northfields 2121 Out of Area 3432 Rowlatts Hill 1839 Rowley Fields 1842 Saffron 2778


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St Matthews 1343 St Saviours 2045 Thurnby Lodge 1449 West End 1821 Woodbridge 1548

The total number of children aged between 5 and 12 years in the City as of as of June 2013 = 35949 The total number of children aged between 5 and 12 reached through Children’s Centres in the 12 month period to 30th June 2013 = 3324

This gives an approximate current percentage reach for 5-12 year olds of 9.2%

Question 2: What is the equality profile of current service users?

The numbers and percentage of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Children Aged 0-5 Years who accessed services in and through the Children’s Centres across the City in a 12 month period to 30th June 2013 is as follows:

Total population BME children aged 0-5 = 12062 Total number reached = 7986 Percentage BME children reached = 66.2 %

Different services collect different types of data and service user information to capture the service they deliver and the outcome service users receive. The aim of the profile below is to capture what you already collect, not to make your information fit a standard template. List the equality profile of your service users. Where you find you do not address a particular characteristic, ask yourself why. You may need to follow up any information gaps as an action point. If this is the case, add it to the action plan at the end of the template.


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The number and percentage of lone parents who accessed services through the Children’s Centres in neighbourhood areas is as follows for the 12 month period to 30th June 2013:

Total population of lone parents in the City = 2475 (approximate- weighting from Census 2011 data)

Total number reached = 2955

Percentage reached = 119% (note further work underway to ascertain why percentage greater than 100%)

The number and percentage of teenage mothers reached through the Children’s Centres in neighbourhood areas is as follows for the 12 month period to 30th June 2013:

Total population of teenage parents in the City = 276


Percentage reached = 69.6 %

The number and percentage of children in workless households reached through the Children’s Centres in neighbourhood areas is as follows for the 12 month period to 30th June 2013:

Total population of children in workless households in the City = 7170



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Percentage reached = 69.6 %

Do you anticipate any changes to your service user profile as a result of your proposal/proposed change? If yes, how will it change? There is no anticipated change to the profile of users in terms of gender, ethnicity, or pregnancy. However, in relation to age, there will be a reduction in the level of non-core activity provided to children aged between 5 and 12 and their families. This may be mitigated against to some degree by the fact that funding for extended services has moved to schools which could be used by schools to fund comparable activity for this age group of children. As children’s centres provide a range of co-located services, delivered by a range of partners including health, early learning, family support and benefits advice, this gives a joined up approach to supporting vulnerable children. Through universal services delivered with greater joint working with partners e.g. health visitors, early identification of children where there might be difficulties in relation to their wellbeing or development and/or difficulties in the family which might impact on the child will continue so that appropriate support and intervention can be offered. There will be a reduction in the level of universal service delivered by Children’s Centre staff, but children’s centre staff will continue to support the delivery of universal services and there will be greater joint working with partners e.g. health visitors and through working with the community to facilitate activity.

What are the main service needs and/or issues for those receiving the service because of their protected characteristic? Service needs and/or issues by protected characteristic Age Children from pre-birth to the age of 12 who need additional

preventative support and services to enable them to achieve a good start in life and be ready for school and go on to good educational achievement Poverty/low income in families can have adverse impact on children’s outcomes

Disability Children aged 0-5 who have additional needs/disabilities need to have early identification of developmental delay or impairment so that additional support can be planned and co-ordinated to give them the best start in life.

Gender reassignment Parents who undergo gender re-assignment are likely to experience additional needs for support, particularly as they transition, together with the support needs of the children in the family

Think about the diversity of your service users and the specific needs they may have that you need to address, depending on the service context and user group. An example of service need is school aged children having differing school meal requirements due to their ethnic or religious background; a potential issue could be poverty/low income having adverse impacts on children women (lone


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Pregnancy and maternity

Access to midwifery services and wider support services early in pregnancy is important in promoting a healthy pregnancy and birth and reducing the risk of poor outcomes for the baby. Pregnant women will continue to be able to access midwifery services through children’s centres where this has already been integrated

Race Families from BME backgrounds may face increased disadvantage in society generally through discrimination– services through Children’s centres contribute to mitigate against the effects of disadvantage. Families from new communities in Leicester may have specific support needs and face greater disadvantage related to their circumstances - Children’s Centres work with families from new communities to combat the effects of the disadvantage.

Religion or belief Not directly impacted Sex (gender) Women make up the majority of service users through

Children’s Centres, although services focus on including fathers and male carers. The proposed changes are likely to have more of a direct effect on women more than men, although the changes may affect them indirectly through impacting on their families.

Sexual orientation Families with gay or lesbian parents may face additional discrimination in society and Children’s centres contribute to mitigating the effects of this for vulnerable families in this group, Increased targeting of provision for this group will mitigate against any negative effect that a reduction on provision may otherwise bring .

Question 3: Will the proposal have an impact on people because of their protected characteristic? Tick the anticipated impact for those likely to be affected and describe that impact in the questions 4 & 5 below.

No impact 1 Positive impact 2

Negative impact 3

Impact not known 4

Age √ Disability √ Gender reassignment Pregnancy and maternity

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Race √ Religion or belief √ Sex (gender) √ Sexual orientation √

1 The proposal has no impact (positive or negative) on the group sharing a protected characteristic. 2 The proposal addresses an existing inequality experienced by the group sharing a protected characteristic (related to provision of services or facilities). 3 The proposal disadvantages one or more of the group sharing a protected characteristic. 4 There is insufficient information available to identify if the group sharing a protected characteristic will be affected by the proposal. NB Any Actions you identify through completing this EIA, you must add to the Action Plan at the end.

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Question 4: Where there is a positive impact, describe the impact for each group sharing a protected characteristic. How many people are likely to be affected? There will be greater opportunities for parents and carers to become involved in delivering their own services and to work in a co- productive programme with more opportunities for parents and carers to become involved in delivering services. This will enable more parents/carers and other members of the community to gain, building skills and experience through volunteering as part of a journey into training and work.

Question 5: Where there is a negative impact, describe the adverse impact for each group sharing a protected characteristic. How many people are likely to be affected? Age

In relation to age, this proposal impacts on children from pre-birth to the age of 12, with greater potential impact between the ages of 0-5, as that is where the majority of work promoting learning and development is focused. Children who are at risk of poor developmental or health and well-being outcomes would be potentially most affected.

Disability

Children with disabilities may not have have their additional needs recognised early, and the appropriate support and services put in place to enable them to get the best start in life.

Gender

In relation to gender, readiness for school data shows that boys do less well at this stage (age 5) than girls. It is possible, therefore, that proposed changes could have a greater impact on boys rather than girls in terms of early educational achievement

Sexual orientation

It may be that parents who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual parents need support in relation to managing discrimination which could impact on them as a family and their children.

How can the negative impact for each group sharing a protected characteristic be reduced or removed? The proposed reductions in provision of activities through childrens’ centre clusters in areas of less deprivation will mean that services aimed at improving children’s early learning and development leading to improved readiness for school will need to be more targeted to those children most at risk of poor learning outcomes than is currently the case. There will need to be a greater focus on closing the outcome gap between the children falling into the bottom 20% and the rest in relation to addressing readiness for school. Other children who have less need will be able to access other sources of support through their family/community networks..


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Children’s Centres will continue to promote the well-being of those vulnerable to safeguarding issues, however, these proposed changes will mean that parenting and family support services will need to become more targeted.

There will be additional Health Visiting staff co-located in the Children’s Centres through ‘Call to Action’ and the Healthy Child Programme. This provides an opportunity for greater partnership working, with better joint up of planning of services and more co-delivery of activity and this will be actively pursued as part of the implementation of this proposal. Through the remodelling of Children’s Centres there will be more opportunities for parents and carers to become involved in delivering services, as well as and this will mean that there is greater resource so compliment services provided directly by staff employed directly by the LA. Age Children’s Centres will continue to focus on the city’s priorities of raising attainment, tackling health inequalities and reducing and mitigating the impact of child poverty. In order to improve the outcomes of the children who are most vulnerable Children’s Centres will continue to target those children that are more vulnerable to poor outcomes using data and through liaison meetings between health and family support managers in Children’s Centres will take place regularly on a weekly/bi weekly basis at which information will be shared about children on both caseloads, vulnerable families where concerns/additional needs have been identified and referrals will be made and progressed. Children’s centres will work to reduce inequalities between families in greatest need and their peers in: child development and school readiness; parenting aspirations and parenting skills; and child and family health and life chances. Disability Identifying children who may have additional needs will be a priority for all staff through all of the activities and service provided through children’s centres. Where additional needs have been identified, targeted support will be offered and referrals are made and progressed, working closely with the Special Needs Teaching Service. Gender Greater targeting of services will ensure that those children vulnerable to poor learning outcomes, where more boys than girls are affected, will enable those children and their parents to engage in activity to ensure that whose children continue to receive the right support their readiness for school and positive learning outcomes. Parents/Carers that access services are predominately women, although work focuses on engaging better with fathers and male carers. Through the remodelling of Children’s Centres there will be more opportunities for parents and carers to become involved in delivering services. Coproduction and volunteering will be a priority for the Children’s Centres and the development of reciprocal relationships between professionals and parents will be based on parents’ strengths. There will be a reduction in children’s centre staff delivered universal services, however children’s centre staff will support universal services and universal and targeted services will continue to be delivered through joint working with partners e.g. health visitors, jobcentre plus and engagement of parents in volunteering. This will contribute to


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Question 6: Which relevant stakeholders were involved in proposing the actions recommended for reducing or removing adverse impacts arising from the proposal? A six week public consultation will take place prior to the resign programme taking place. The EIA will be informed further and updated with feedback from the consultation. What data/information/analysis have you used to inform your equality impact findings? Parents and children data from Estart on levels of present service delivery,

Supplementary information Question 7: Is there other alternative or comparable provision available in the city? Who provides it and where is it provided? No Can this alternative or comparable provision help reduce or remove the negative impacts identified in Question 5? If not, why not? n/a Would service users negatively affected by the proposal be eligible to use this alternative or comparable provision? Would it meet their identified needs? n/a

Question 8: Will any particular area of the city be more affected by the proposal than other parts of the city? What area and why? All areas of the city will be covered by a network of Children’s Centre clusters from which services will be delivered in the same venues across the City as is the case now. There will be greater targeting of provision in those areas with lower levels of need and deprivation.

Question 9: Is it likely that there may be other sources of negative impacts affecting service users over the next three years that need to be considered? What might compound the negative effects of this proposal? Describe any additional negative impacts over time that could realistically occur. New benefit arrangements could potentially have an additional adverse impact on families. External economic impacts such as the recession/economic downturn; socio-economic factors such as deprivation/low income, could all have a potentially additional adverse impact on families.

For example, Government policies or proposed changes to current provision by public agencies (such as new benefit arrangements) that have an adverse impact on residents; external economic impacts such as the recession/economic downturn; socio-economic factors such as deprivation/low income.


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Question 10: Will staff providing the service be affected by the proposal/proposed changes? If yes, which posts and in what way? Staff providing the service will be affected by the proposed changes. There will be a full EIA completed in relation to impact on staffing once the redesign model has been completed and prior to any re-structuring of staffing.

Date completed …………26/07/2013…………………………………..

Step 2: Consultation on the proposal Question1: What consultation on the final proposal has taken place? When, where and who with? Consultation took place on the children’s centre re-design proposals previously put forward in the consultation of the Council’s budget proposals 2013-15 in December 2012, and views will be used to inform the final model. A further 6 week public consultation will take place prior to the final resign model being taken forward.

Question 2: What potential impacts did consultation stakeholders identify? What positive equality impacts were identified? For people with which protected characteristics? What negative equality impacts were identified? For people with which protected characteristics?

Question 3: Did stakeholders indicate how positive impacts could be further promoted? How?

Consulting potential service users on the proposal will provide you with an opportunity to collect information from them on the equality impacts they think may occur as a result of the proposed change, positive as well as negative. For negative impacts, this is an opportunity for them to identify how best to mitigate any negative impacts on them that they think may occur.


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Did stakeholders indicate how negative impacts could be reduced or removed? How?

Date completed ……………………………………………..


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Step 3: The recommendation (the recommended decision on how to change the service)

Question 1: Has your recommended proposal changed from the proposal in Step 1 as a result of Consultation and further consideration?

Yes No If ‘no’, go to Question 2.

If yes, describe the revised proposal and how it will affect current service users?

What are the equality implications of these changes? Identify the likely positive and negative impacts of the final proposal and the protected characteristic affected.

How can any negative impacts be reduced or removed?

Question 2: Are there any actions5 required as a result of this EIA?

Yes No

If yes, complete the action plan on the next page.

Date completed ……………………………………………..

Step 4: Sign-off

This EIA completed by Name Signature Date Lead officer Countersigned by Equalities Officer Signed off by Divisional Director

Completion - Keep a copy for your records, and send an electronic copy of the completed and signed form to the Corporate Equalities Lead for audit purposes

5 Actions could include improving equality information collected or identifying the actions required to mitigate adverse impacts identified in the EIA.

Go back to the initial exercise you carried out at the beginning, on understanding your equality profile. Re-visit each characteristic and what has changed as a result of amending your recommendation. Revise potential positive and negative equality impacts accordingly.


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EIA Action Plan

Please list all the equality objectives, actions and targets that result from the Equality Impact Assessment. These should be included in the relevant service plan for performance management purposes.

Equality Objective Action required Target Officer responsible By when?

Example: To know equality profile of all service users.

Example: collect monitoring data on disabled users (currently not being provided)

Example: To have data for first performance review

Example: Joe Smith Example: Start collection of data in April 2013

What to do next? If this EIA has identified any issues that need to be addressed (such as plugging a data gap, or carrying out a specific action that reduces or removes any negative impacts identified), complete the attached EIA Action Plan to set out what action is required, who will carry it out, and when it will be carried out/completed.

Once your EIA has been completed, (countersigned by the equalities officer/finance officer and signed off by your Director) the equality officer will work with you to monitor this action plan.

Officers to contact: Corporate Equalities Lead/Corporate Resources and Support: Irene Kszyk 296303 Adult Social Care, Health & Housing: Gurjit Minhas 298706 Children’s Services: Sonya King 297738 City Development & Neighbourhoods: Daxa Patel 296674


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