UCU: Equality impact assessment

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes the work UCU has done to promote the implementation of the race, gender and disability duties including the production of the comprehensive equality duties toolkit. Congress notes with concern the lack of progress Colleges and Universities have made in implementing this legislation including impact assessments. After seven years, Universities and Colleges should not be allowed to simply publish statistics that are not backed up by positive actions.
Research and resources have been produced about sexual orientation strands. Conducting impact assessments is useful in industrial relations bargaining. To support all branches in negotiating for equality implementation Congress calls for the Equality Unit to produce an all-inclusive resource and distribute it to all branches along with related training across regions open to all members.
UCU Congress believes the full implementation of the public sector duties should be a key priority for the UCU Equality Unit and UCU regions.