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We are committed to equality of opportunity and a culture that respects individuality. The Equality Act 2010 and Scottish specific equality duties provide a clear planning and reporting framework to help us achieve this.
Our Equality outcomes plan 2021-23 provides a high level overview of the activity that will help us to achieve these outcomes, what success will look like and how we will measure the impact on relevant equality groups.
Our review of evidence, and specifically that gathered through direct research and engagement about SLAB’s remit as a service provider and employer has led to a focus on the protected characteristics of age, race, disability, sex and pregnancy and maternity.
The evidence does not suggest that the remaining protected characteristics of religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marriage and civil partnership face specific barriers in relation to the themes of our equality outcomes. However, we will monitor this through any equality impact assessments completed as part of the work to deliver our equality outcomes.
Our Equality outcomes progress and mainstreaming report (October 2020) includes:
File | Type | Size |
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Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Progress Report Oct 2018 | 680 KB | |
Equalities Mainstreaming and Equality Outcomes Progress Report April 2017 | 665 KB | |
Equality monitoring of protected characteristics 2018-19 | 455 KB | |
Equality monitoring of protected characteristics 2019-20 | 612 KB |
Transparency in our decision making is supported by our equality impact assessment (EqIA) process.
Our approach to this ensures we consider the impact of new and current policies or projects on protected equality groups.
It also helps us meet the general public sector equality duty to have due regard to the need to:
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EQIA Online Form 2 | 694 KB | |
EQIA Systems Letters April 2021 | 502 KB | |
EQIA IoJ summary proceedings | 405 KB |
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Solicitor Contact Line (SCL) EQIA | 171 KB | |
Research Full Equality Impact Assessment | 140 KB | |
Severe Weather and Travel Disruption Policy | 273 KB | |
Payments | 226 KB | |
Direct Services EqIA | 345 KB | |
Grant Funding Programme 2020 EqIA - Debt Advice Journey | 277 KB | |
Covid 19 HR Policy Changes EQIA | 400 KB | |
EqIA Criminal Summary and Solemn Special Urgency | 328 KB | |
Solicitor engagement EqIA | 300 KB |
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LAOL EQIA | 137 KB | |
EQIA Guidance on Special Urgency Applications July2016 | 157 KB | |
Special Urgency | 208 KB | |
Section 31 | 151 KB | |
Children's | 165 KB | |
Contact guidance | 150 KB | |
EQIA Form 2 | 170 KB | |
Streamlining EQIA | 127 KB | |
CJ Act | 147 KB | |
CLAO database technical upgrade | 144 KB | |
CLAO Business Plan EQIA | 161 KB | |
SNSIAP | 198 KB |
A Criminal Justice Disability Project (CJDP) was set up by the Justice Board to promote and enable accessibility of service across the criminal justice sector in Scotland for people with disabilities.
The member organisations have published a final report of the CJDP.
A large print version is also available or you can view a BSL version of the Executive Summary.
We are keen to hear your views about:
Please provide feedback or let us know if you would like to get involved in our equality work by contacting our Corporate Policy Officer (Equalities) using the details below:
Direct dial: 0131 240 1981
Email: equalities@slab.org.uk