Dear Ms Knights,

I refer to your request for information received on 17 February 2022.

Your request for information will be considered under the provisions of
Freedom of Information Act 2000, if your request also relates to
Environmental Information e.g. information about the environment or land
development your request will then be considered under the  Environmental
Information Regulations 2004. In accordance with the legislation, the
deadline for responding is usually 20 working days from the receipt of the
request, this being the 18 March 2022. However, we shall endeavour to deal
with your request promptly, and if possible before this date.

Yours sincerely,

Business Services Assistant

Access to Information Team

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

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Dear Catherine Knights

Thank you for your request dated 17 February 2022.

I can confirm that we hold the requested information.

Your enquiry was as follows:

I refer to the Councils new draft Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Strategy 2022-2025

1. Please provide a list of all organisations that you have consulted in
relation to the new strategy and details of any payment made in respect of
this advice.

2. Please provide details of any advice received.

3. What risk assessments have you made on the impact of the new policy on
all 9 protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010? Please
provide copies of any risk assessments.

4. When will the draft Equality Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2022-2025
be out for public consultation? Please provide dates and time frame.

The request has been considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
The response to your request is as follows:

 1. List of organisations consulted “for advice” is none. The Council
conducted a general consultation on the draft strategy and received
comments on the strategy but did not seek “advice” from any
organisation. Payments made for advice is consequently £0.
 2. N/A for the reason set out in 1. above
 3. No risk assessments were carried out nor an Equalities Impact
Assessment. The EIA/ Public sector equality duty does not say there is
a legal duty to complete an EIA or risk assessment as such. That said,
the processes we have used in gathering data, analysing aspects of
inequality, consulting over our strategy, and engaging with staff and
other stakeholders on an ongoing basis means we meet these duties. The
other specific duties for the PSED include a requirement to publish
our equality objectives and reporting progress against these. The
recently developed strategy amended previous objectives replacing them
with new ones and our proposals for monitoring progress and reporting
this will demonstrate that we meet the other requirement. The EIA
process is about understanding a situation, considering what we know
and what might happen out of a set of proposals or changes, and if
these could lead to discrimination or further inequality, trying to
avoid or reduce any unlawful or other discrimination etc.  You could
say that we commonly use EIA as a tool to aid with decision-making and
this covers all 9 protected characteristics. A specific EIA wasn’t
done on the strategy – it was really integral within the processes.
 4. A six-week period of consultation on the draft Strategy was undertaken
between 13 December 2021 and 21 January 2022.

I apologise for the delay in responding to your request and hope this now
satisfies your request.

However should you wish the outcome to be reviewed, please follow the
procedure as set out below:-

If you wish to challenge this decision further, please send your comments
to:

Stage 1

Access to Information Officer

Solicitor

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

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Stage 2

After completing the above procedure, if you wish to challenge the
decision further, then you have a right to contact the Information
Commissioner’s Office as follows:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113/Fax: 01625 524510

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Kind regards

Melanie Turvey | Research & Information Manager | Policy and Research |
Corporate Services and Transformation | Derbyshire County Council | County
Hall, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 3AG | Direct dial: 01629 539167

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