NB This is the sixth and last page of the online version of the SDT Guidance Note Disability Impact Assessments: A Brief Guide, published in December 2005.
6: Impact Assessment Summary
Mapping Exercise aims:
- Identify all formal and informal policies, practices, procedures and criteria;
- Establish who is responsible for implementation
- Establish relevance to disability equality and prioritise as High, Medium or Low involving disabled people in the process;
- Determine if there is scope for promoting disability equality within the policy, practice, procedure or criterion.
For each policy, practice, procedure or criterion:
- Gather data:
- Identify what data is required to assess impact;
- Identify what data is available and what further data needs to be gathered;
- Use a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data and ensure data is reliable and valid.
- Assess impact:
- Determine if policy, practice etc has any positive impact;
- Determine if policy, practice etc has had or is likely to have an adverse impact on disability equality on the basis of the information gathered;
- Determine nature of the adverse impact.
- Eliminate adverse impact:
- Investigate why adverse impact had occurred/was likely to occur;
- Find measures to eliminate or reduce adverse impact;
- Amend policy or practice as appropriate;
- Assess changes for adverse impact.
- Involve disabled people (at all stages of the process):
- Ensure that disabled people with a range of perspectives are involved;
- Use a variety of accessible methods for consultation;
- Take into account proportionality and relevance.
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