Equality Impact Assessment - Screening

You don't have to carry out an equality impact assessment on everything that you do. 

The secret of an effective equality impact assessment process is knowing where to focus your resources. 

You can use a screening process to decide which policies, practices or decisions need to be subject to a full equality impact assessment. In general terms, an effective screening process decides on priorities based on proportionality, relevance and scale. 

The golden rules:

IF you are doing something which could potentially detrimentally affect service users, or a particular group of service users, and/or:

IF your actions or proposals are of sufficient scale; 

THEN you should probably carry out a full equality impact assessment.