Equality Analysis: ten year strategy

This Equality Analysis covers our development work to date for the Arts Council’s next 10 year strategy, which will be published in Autumn 2019 and covers the period 2020-2030.

An Equality Analysis identifies and analyses all available data and evidence relating to the development of a policy and assesses the potential impact on protected characteristic groups, as defined by the Equality Act 2010 including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We also seek to go beyond our legal duty and ensure that the activity we invest in is reflective of the diversity of contemporary England. The Action Plan section of the Equality Analysis sets out the steps we will take to mitigate against any potential negative impact of our decisions on equality and diversity across the cultural sector.

The Equality Analysis and Action plan will continue to be developed through to the publication and implementation of our new strategy. The evidence base is reviewed and updated quarterly and the Action Plan is added to and updated as the work progresses. We will publish another iteration of the Equality Analysis to accompany the new strategy in autumn 2019.