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Equality impact assessment

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Equality impact assessment

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A process of considering the effect a new policy or project will have on all groups of people, and making sure that no-one is left out or worse off. The aim is to see whether changes to the way things are done will have a good or bad result for people from particular groups, such as disabled people, older people and people from ethnic minority groups.

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