How to undertake an equality impact assessment

Equality impact assessments are best practice under the Public Sector Equality Duty and enable us to demonstrate that we have paid ‘due regard’ to our equality duty in all that we do. To make LSE the fully inclusive and sector-leading, any changes you make should ultimately benefit everyone and not disadvantage anyone with protected characteristics.

An Equality Impact Assessment, or EIA, is a way of ensuring LSE’s policies, practices, services and functions are the very best that they can be by checking:

• That they do not inadvertently disadvantage anyone, and
• That where possible, they proactively advance equality, diversity and inclusion.

The purpose of an EIA is to pre-empt any issues: anticipate what the impact of the policy is on different groups of staff, students and prospective staff and students, mitigate any negatives and maximise any positives.

1. Read the EIA Guidance and EIA Form.

2.  Notify your Head of Division or Department that you are undertaking an EIA, as
     they will need to sign it off; the responsibility of conducting an EIA lies with the
     division or department, not the EDI Team. 

3.  Follow the EIA process steps outlined in the guidance (below).