For FE & sixth-form colleges · Equality Act 2010

Your whole policy register, equality-assessed and kept current

FE corporations carry the full Public Sector Equality Duty across every policy — from safeguarding to admissions to HR. EqualityIQ turns a register of a hundred-plus policies from a compliance headache into a live, evidenced system.

The challenge

A large register, and rarely a dedicated equality officer

Colleges hold large policy registers — safeguarding, admissions, curriculum, employment, finance, estates — and as listed public authorities, the equality duty applies to all of it. Few colleges have a dedicated equality officer, so assessments land on quality teams and deputy principals already stretched thin. Meanwhile governors and inspectors increasingly expect to see evidence of due regard, not just a completed form.

What changes

Built for the way colleges actually work

Upload the policy itself

Upload a policy as PDF or Word and the analysis draws on its full text — citing its actual provisions by section, not a general description of what such a policy usually contains.

Evidence that reflects your students

During onboarding we build the evidence base around your learners: student-population evidence alongside data for your campus areas, and your own EDI monitoring added as private evidence — so assessments reflect your actual student body.

Visibility for governors

Read-only dashboard access lets governors and senior leaders see the whole register's status, actions and review dates — governance evidence without another spreadsheet.

The real problem

Beyond the tick-box

Everyone in the public sector knows the failure mode: an equality impact assessment written after the decision, from a template, under deadline pressure — completed, filed, and never used. That's rarely a failure of the people writing them. It's that thorough analysis has always been expensive enough to ration, so it goes to the highest-profile decisions and everything else gets what's left. The duty asks for due regard, not paperwork — and when the evidence arrives with the first draft, on every assessment, genuine engagement becomes the realistic path rather than the exceptional one.

Tick-boxWritten after the decision

EqualityIQEvidenced from the outset, so the analysis can still shape the decision

Tick-box"No impact identified" — asserted, not evidenced

EqualityIQEvery claim cited to a named source

Tick-boxThorough analysis rationed to the big decisions

EqualityIQThe same standard applied to every policy on the register

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Evidence for your sector

What your assessments draw on

Education and learner demographic evidence, built into your evidence base during onboarding
Census 2021, deprivation and health indicators for your campus areas
A curated evidence base of approved organisations, matched to your sector and cited by characteristic
Your own student and staff EDI monitoring, added as private evidence

Questions

Common questions from colleges

Does the Public Sector Equality Duty really apply to colleges?

Do we need an assessment for every policy?

How does this help with inspection and governance?

Our student body isn't the same as the local population. Does the analysis reflect that?

That's what onboarding is for. We build your evidence base around your learners — age profiles, learning difficulties and disabilities, care-experienced students — alongside data for the areas your campuses serve, and your own EDI monitoring can be added so assessments reflect the students you actually teach. Where a college operates across more than one area, an assessment can draw on each, with every figure labelled.

See it on one of your policies

We'll run EqualityIQ on a live policy from your register — no commitment, no setup required.

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