Equality Impact Assessment 2025-2026

Equality Impact Assessment 

This Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) provides detail on the extent to which we have engaged with the general population of the city over the last year. Equalities data is compared to the previous 2024-2025 review and to findings from the city-wide census (2021) and the more recent Health Counts survey (2024) .

We present equalities data captured from 19 projects. These comprise a total of 3,127 responses, which is an increase from 2,174 last year. Overall, we are achieving well in the majority of the protected characteristics but there is a need to reach more men, more younger people, and people from ethnic minorities. 

Nonetheless, the trend has been promising over this last year seeing a slight increased proportion of men (a 4 percentage point increase on last year and the highest proportion since 2021-2022) with similar figures from last year for younger people and ethnic minority groups.