All equality strands: Any issue that cuts across ethnicity, age, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexuality and rurality. Issue Impact Positive Impact Negative impact Further action Yes required? No Potential Usage by Potential The Strategy is to move the Yes – members of staff into more accessible Implement the Council’s the public modern accommodation strategy. encouraging the better use of space. This move will impact on the publicly accessed buildings where the intention to meet modern and up to date standards for access which will provide visible improvements promoting equality and diversity. Impact on Potential One of the benefits of implementing Through the implementation of the Yes Before – travel the Strategy is that it may reduce strategy the Council will occupy implementation arrangements the time and money staff spend on fewer buildings. of the strategy commuting by adopting home and in an area, full flexible working methods. This will mean that it is likely that analysis will the public and staff will need to need to be The use of online transactions will travel further to get to their undertaken to reduce travelling time and cost for destination of work or place to get assess the the public to get an enquiry dealt their enquiry dealt with by the impact on with by an employee of the Authority. customers and Authority. staff.
All equality strands: Any issue that cuts across ethnicity, age, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexuality and rurality. Issue Impact Yes No Potential Positive Impact Negative impact Further action required? Usage by members of the public Potential The Strategy is to move the Council’s staff into more accessible modern accommodation encouraging the better use of space. This move will impact on the publicly accessed buildings where the intention to meet modern and up to date standards for access which will provide visible improvements promoting equality and diversity. Yes – Implement the strategy. Impact on travel arrangements Potential One of the benefits of implementing the Strategy is that it may reduce the time and money staff spend on commuting by adopting home and flexible working methods. The use of online transactions will reduce travelling time and cost for the public to get an enquiry dealt with by an employee of the Authority. Through the implementation of the strategy the Council will occupy fewer buildings. This will mean that it is likely that the public and staff will need to travel further to get to their destination of work or place to get their enquiry dealt with by the Authority. Yes – Before implementation of the strategy in an area, full analysis will need to be undertaken to assess the impact on customers and staff.
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