Race Equality Audit

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Race equality audit Background The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 requires all public bodies to publish three pieces of information regarding race equality: 1. The Race Equality Scheme. The Act required public authorities to publish their first Race stEquality Scheme by May 31 2002, and to review it within three years. 2. Employment monitoring statistics relating to race equality. 3. Outcomes of race equality impact assessments – these are required to be published as they are completed. Method A web-based audit of the websites of all trusts’ was undertaken. Where the documents were not identified within 30 minutes, the trust was recorded as not meeting requirements. The web-based audit assumes that if a trust has published the documents, they will be accessible on the trust’s website as a minimum. There are situations where the trust may have met the requirement to publish without it being available on the website. For example, they may have published the document in hard copy only, distributed copies to local patient, community and voluntary groups or it may be mentioned on the website and available on request. The initial audit consisted of a pilot phase of 10% of trusts. Using the web-based approach, where a trust was identified as not meeting requirements in any of the three requirements, the results were passed onto regional staff for validation. In each of the three publication requirements, regional follow ...

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Race equality audit

Background

The Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 requires all public bodies to publish three pieces

of information regarding race equality:

1. The Race Equality Scheme. The Act required public authorities to publish their first Race

Equality Scheme by May 31

st

2002, and to review it within three years.

2. Employment monitoring statistics relating to race equality.

3. Outcomes of race equality impact assessments – these are required to be published as

they are completed.

Method

A web-based audit of the websites of all trusts’ was undertaken.

Where the documents were

not identified within 30 minutes, the trust was recorded as not meeting requirements.

The web-based audit assumes that if a trust has published the documents, they will be

accessible on the trust’s website as a minimum.

There are situations where the trust may have met the requirement to publish without it being

available on the website.

For example, they may have published the document in hard copy

only, distributed copies to local patient, community and voluntary groups or it may be

mentioned on the website and available on request.

The initial audit consisted of a pilot phase of 10% of trusts.

Using the web-based approach,

where a trust was identified as not meeting requirements in any of the three requirements, the

results were passed onto regional staff for validation.

In each of the three publication

requirements, regional follow up led to 1.8% results being amended.

The small margin of

error indicated that a web-based audit is a sufficiently robust methodology for the purposes of

this audit.

Furthermore, the original assumption that publication involves the document /

information being accessible on the website is validated by the result that no trusts reported

publication (and distribution or promotion) in hard copy during regional follow up.

That is, in

all cases where the result was changed to positive after follow up, a hyperlink was provided to

demonstrate that this is has been published on the website.

The following results provide a ‘snap shot’ of the position among trusts in England as at

March 24

th

2006.

It is possible that since this date, more trusts have published the Race

Equality Scheme, employment monitoring statistics on race equality and outcomes of race

equality impact assessments in some cases, prompted by the regional follow up undertaken

as part of the pilot phase or of the audit itself.

The scope of this report is quantitative analysis of trusts compliance; it should be noted that

the audit did not involve any qualitative analysis of the documentation.

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Summary of results

1. Overall

Percentage of trusts

that have published a

current Race Equality

Scheme (2005-2008)

Percentage of trusts

that have published

employment

monitoring statistics by

ethnic groups in last 18

months

Percentage of trusts

that have published

the outcomes of race

equality impact

assessments

60%

6%

2%

•

One per cent (7/570) of trusts have fully met the Act’s publication requirements (have

published a current Race Equality Scheme, employment monitoring statistics by ethnic

group and outcomes of race equality impact assessments). The seven trusts consist of:

o

four PCTs

o

one mental health trusts

o

one acute trust

o

one ambulance trust

•

Six per cent (35/570) have met two of the three requirements, i.e. publication of a current

Race Equality Scheme and employment monitoring statistics by ethnic groups.

2. By region

Breakdown

Percentage of trusts

that have published a

current Race Equality

Scheme (2005-2008)

Percentage of trusts

that have published

employment

monitoring statistics by

ethnic groups in last 18

months

Percentage of trusts

that have published

the outcomes of race

equality impact

assessments

Overall

60%

6%

2%

North (172)

55%

6%

1%

London and South

East (120)

73%

14%

2%

Central (173)

54%

5%

2%

South West (105)

63%

2%

2%

3. By sector

Breakdown

Percentage of trusts

that have published a

current Race Equality

Scheme (2005-2008)

Percentage of trusts

that have published

employment

monitoring statistics by

ethnic groups in last 18

months

Percentage of trusts

that have published

the outcomes of race

equality impact

assessments

Overall

60%

6%

2%

Acute (173)

48%

6%

1%

Mental health (61)

61%

10%

2%

Ambulance(30)

57%

10%

3%

Learning

disability(3)

33%

33%

0%

Primary care (303) 67%

5%

2%