1. Equality Delivery Scheme (EDS)
Goal Assessment Process
2014/2015

2. Equality Act 2010
Eliminate discrimination, harassment, and victimisation and any other conduct that is prohibited by or under the Act
Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it
Foster good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not share it.
Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 is a „public sector equality duty‟ which is the formal title of the legislation; the „general equality duty‟ is the overarching requirement or substance of the duty. The general duty requires public authorities, in the exercise of their function to have due regard to the need to:

3. Protected Characteristics
1. Age
2. Disability
3. Gender reassignment
4. Marriage and civil partnership
5. Pregnancy and maternity
6. Race
7. Religion or belief
8. Sex
9. Sexual orientation

4. EDS Goals & Outcomes Better health outcomes for all
Achieve improvements in patient health, public health and patient safety for all, based on comprehensive evidence of needs and results
3. Empowered, engaged and well supported staff
Increase the diversity and quality of the working lives of the paid and non-paid workforce, supporting all staff to better respond to patients’ and communities’ needs
2. Improved patient access and experience
Improve accessibility and information, and deliver the right services that are targeted, useful, useable and used in order to improve patient experience
4. Inclusive leadership at all levels
Ensure that equality is everyone’s business, and everyone is expected to take an active part, supported by the work of specialist equality leaders and champions

5. Process for grading Never Undeveloped Developing Achieving Excelling
All
means all nine protected groups
Most
means six to eight protected groups
Some
means three to five protected groups
Few
means one or two protected groups.
None
means no protected groups
Always
nine times out of nine.
Usually
six to eight times out of nine
Sometimes
three to five times out of nine
Never
none out of nine
Defining terms
The process for grading asks the assessor to choose between :
“all”, “most”, “some/few” and “none ” protected groups. As a rule of thumb : Or
“Never or rarely”, “Sometimes”. “Usually” and “Always” are used.
Although there are no fixed rules, these definitions have been provided to help organisations and local interests to apply these terms fairly and consistently.
e.g. If there are nine occurrences in total in a business period – for example, nine possible occasions on which patients can be engaged on a particular matter, or nine occasions when issues for protected groups can be integrated into mainstream business - then these terms can be defined as follows :
Undeveloped
Developing
Achieving
Excelling
Never or rarely
Sometimes
Usually
Always

6. Data ~ Experience ~ Perceptions
Grading Process 2014/2015
Data ~ Experience ~ Perceptions
A consistent assessment/grading process will be used for all goals. This will include :
Wide review of available data – policy; process; statistics; survey
Facilitated face to face workshop
On online survey