Equality Impact Assessment Training

Duration:        One day                          

Last Updated: February 2026 

Suitable for:   All involved with completion or supervising people who complete 

McKenzie has comprehensive experience of Equality Impact Assessments. As an organisation, we are regularly commissioned to produce external Equality Impact Assessments on behalf of our partner organisations so we bring significant lived experience to all training events.  

An Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) is essentially a people risk analysis examining how policies activities and functions may impact on different sections of society. EqIAs are used in two ways:

• To identify risks of discrimination – direct, indirect and factors that may not be immediately obvious.

• To explore how to develop more inclusive policies and activities to meet both the requirements and expectations of people in 2025.

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Completer Training: 

We offer a one day, modern, interactive and practical training event designed to impart the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence required to complete an Equality Impact Assessment.

The event explores the importance of having initial exploratory, safe space conversations using lateral thinking skills, testing assumptions and the use of data to identify if potential equality risks exist or not.

If potential equality risks do exist, we guide delegates through a five stage process (below) to follow to ensure that a comprehensive Equality Impact Assessment is produced which is completely fit for purpose and is not simply a ‘tick box’ exercise.  

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Five Stage Model:   

Our structured approach to EqIAs is summarised opposite. This includes the use of ‘smart questions’ which are designed to facilitate exploratory conversations and promote lateral thinking.  

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Practical Experience: 

During the event, delegates gain practical experience of examining activities through the EqIA ‘prism’. They complete an Equality Impact Assessment using a real organisational policy, discuss this in smaller syndicate  groups and producing a practise assessment which is discussed. They are then given a model answer completed by ourselves for both learning and reference purposes.  

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Completion Tools:

Upon completion, delegates are given a virtual toolbox to keep which is full of resources, links and tools to assist in the completion of Equality Impact Assessments. This includes a scrutiny tool which can be used to check if an Equality Impact Assessment has been completed to a satisfactory standard.

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Scrutiny Tool:

The four hallmarks of a robust Equality Impact Assessment are shown opposite. This represent the overall themes of our training events.

This tool can also be used by more senior people in your organisation who may not necessarily be responsible for EqIA completion to review and sign off EqIAs. McKenzie also offer half day EqIA ‘scrutiny’ training for senior managers. Please contact us to discuss. 

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Event Style:

Our style is modern, interactive engaging, practical and fun. Events can either be delivered as a one day event in house or via virtual training which is delivered via two half day events with an interval in-between to allow for practical practise Equality Impact Assessment completion. 

All events are delivered by senior in house subject matter experts. 

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Event Content:

Whilst we always work with our partner organisations to develop a bespoke approach, an example of training content and delivery options is available for download below:

EqIA Training Overview January 2025

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Previous Customers:  

Recent customers choosing to work with McKenzie in this area include:

ACAS, Transport for the North, The Disclosure and Barring Service, The Law Society, Capita, The National Fire Chief’s Council, The NHS, The BBC, Ofgem, The Department of Health, The Care Quality Commission, The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, YMCA England, over 50 different UK local authorities and social housing providers. We also have considerable experience of working within the Fire and Rescue sector delivering this training to 16 different services since 2020. 

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McKenzie Downloads and Resources:

Existing McKenzie customers can download our latest EqIA documentation Version 15.0 January 2025. Note your password is required to open this document.

EqIA Template 2025 Version

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20 Page Guide to Competing Equality Impact Assessments. (For existing customers. A password is required to open)

Version 1.1 EqIA Guidance Notes

ACAS have also produced an exellent EqIA resource / guide which can be accessed here:

Acas-managers-guide-to-equality-assessments

Read the very latest guidance published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission relating to the Public Sector Equality Duty – including guidance on assessing impact. Download the document here for free:

technical_guidance_on_the_psed_England

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Please contact us to discuss further: 

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