Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 - Socio-Economic Duty - Find a freedom of information request

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from your local authority:

1. Please indicate whether your local authority has formally adopted the socioeconomic duty (Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010). For this purpose, 'adoption' of the socio-economic duty, means that the authority must have either passed a motion at full council that adopts the duty, approved adoption via delegated decision or have agreed it via the council's executive or cabinet. Please provide any relevant documentation to support your response.

2. Does your local authority consider socio-economic status within all its Equality Impact Assessments and equality frameworks? Please provide any relevant documentation to support your response.

3. Has your local authority made a commitment to considering socio-economic status more broadly in strategic decision-making and policy development? Please provide any relevant documentation to support your response.

4. If your local authority has formally adopted the socio-economic duty (as described in question 1), please describe how the council has implemented the duty, or provide details relating to any future plans it has for implementation.

5. If your local authority has not formally adopted the socio-economic duty (as described in question 1), are there future plans to adopt it? If so, please indicate the timeline that this will happen within.

1. No

2. Not all our Equality Impact Assessments directly consider socio-economic issues, but there is scope for the authors of EIAs to identify the wider impacts of proposals not just their impacts on protected characteristics. This can include socio-economic impacts where relevant. A copy of the Council's EIA template is attached. 

If you would like to see a copy of this attachment, please contact CustomerInformationService@lincolnshire.gov.uk quoting the reference number 3063710.

3.No.

4. Not applicable

5.No.