Equality Impact Assessment

Summary for Publication

Name of EIA

Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership

Service area

Housing and Community Regeneration

Directorate

Economy and Environment

Background

Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership provide a co-ordinated approach to deliver local services to meet the needs of local people in an area that historically has suffered from lack of investment, poor housing, inadequate service delivery leading to poor attainment, poor health and low esteem.

Impact on different customer groups

• BME residents - lack of data to determine relevant actions necessary to promote good practise around consultation
• Young people - higher than average number of young people that are not in education or employment compared to the rest of Tameside
• Older people - isolation is a real problem for many older people living in Hattersley

Scope of the Equality Impact Assessment

The EIA will consider the core activities of the partnership to ensure the co-ordination and delivery of services across Hattersley, ensure that communication is delivered in an appropriate manner that keeps residents and partners informed and in addition that residents are fully engaged in a way that they can fully participate in the physical developments taking place in Hattersley over the next 5 - 7 years.

Existing data sources / evidence used

• Household Survey 2001 -
• Mori Household Survey 2003
• Mori Household Survey 2006
• Tameside Priority Regeneration Survey 2007
• Sports Needs Assessment - users, stakeholders, focus groups
• Community Facilities Needs Assesment 2006 - users, stakeholders, focus groups
• Hattersley Strategic Masterplan 2000 - consultation events, tenant and resident groups, residents
• Hattersley Strategic Framework 2003 - consultation events, tenant and resident groups, residents
• The Skills Audit 2007
• Hattersley Young People’s Consultation 2008
• Local Extended Schools Action Plans 2007
• We extract and analyse data from each of these documents to provide us with the groups/residents that we are required to work with e.g. by age, disability, gender, ethnicity. We have identified that the analysis to date has not provided us with evidence relating to sexual orientation or religion/belief although no projects or services are specific to these.
• With the exception of the Young People’s Consultation the other surveys and consultation events have been equally balanced across gender, age, ethnicity and disability.

Conclusions drawn from evidence

• Good communication practises are already in place that ensure all residents are well communicated to, and that all residents can actively and confidently engage in the consultation process
• A gap was identified in the availability of data about the BME community in Hattersley

Consultation carried out

• Household Survey 2001 -
• Mori Household Survey 2003
• Mori Household Survey 2006
• Tameside Priority Regeneration Survey 2007
• Sports Needs Assessment - users, stakeholders, focus groups
• Community Facilities Needs Assesment 2006 - users, stakeholders, focus groups
• Hattersley Strategic Masterplan 2000 - consultation events, tenant and resident groups, residents
• Hattersley Strategic Framework 2003 - consultation events, tenant and resident groups, residents

Assessment of impact arising from evidence

BME residents - lack of data to determine relevant actions necessary to promote good practise around consultation, this is to be addressed through the sharing of data from a PVHA commissioned survey

Older people - the available evidence suggests that isolation is a real problem for many older people living in Hattersley this issue is being addressed through the delivery of outreach sessions in Hattersley by Connexions

Taking Action

Monitoring progress

Janet Frost, Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership

Huw Davies, Manager

• The Equality Impact Assessment action plan will be identified as a priority within the HNP Business Plan
• The responsible officer will report on a quarterly basis to the Housing and Community Regeneration Team meetings - any issues will be discussed and actions identified
• The Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership team will collate local data at each relevant training session, consultation event, and other appropriate forums and reports will be submitted to the Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership Board and theme groups

Reports will be prepared for the appropriate service e.g Connexions, Tameside Older People's Partnership

Contact officer/s

Janet Frost, Hattersley Neighbourhood Partnership

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