In the template Devon County Council currently uses to perform Equality Impact Assessments, do you include any of the following groups? Please answer each separately:
- Care Experienced People
- Looked After Children
- Care Leavers
Our Impact Assessment standard form (which can be found here) includes the following section below. Devon County Council would consider Care Experienced People and Care Leavers as the same.
‘Other relevant socio-economic factors and intersectionality.
This includes:
- People on low incomes, children in care and care experienced people, armed services veterans, family background (size/single people/lone parents/family carers etc.), sub-cultures, refugee status, asylum seeker no recourse to public funds.
- Housing quality and tenure, education and skills, language and literacy skills, health and wellbeing.
- Rural isolation, access to services and transport, access to ICT/Broadband, social connectivity.
Also consider intersectionality with other characteristics.’