Get UK KCC Equalities Monitoring Form 2007-2023

Equality and diversity monitoring can help identify current and future needs, possible inequalities including problems accessing or using services and information, as well as checking that a cross-section of people have been reached and given their views.

Equality Monitoring is the collection of information about the characteristics of people such as their age, disability, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

It allows policy makers to better design, adapt, monitor and evaluate policies. Equality data are, therefore, a powerful tool in the fight against discrimination and exclusion. The European Union has in place an advanced legal framework with which to promote equality and non-discrimination.

It can be useful to include the equality and diversity monitoring form with job application forms. To avoid discrimination: you must keep the information on this form separate from the application form and CV. anyone involved in interviewing or deciding who to hire must not have access to the information.

Equality monitoring involves the collection of information about staff, volunteers and service users and is a very important part of tackling inequality and discrimination.

'Equality and diversity monitoring' is where anonymous data collected about people is analysed to look for differences between groupings.