One equality standard across every school in the trust
Harmonising policies across schools means every policy needs equality analysis that works for every community you serve. EqualityIQ makes trust-wide due regard practical.
The challenge
One harmonised policy, many different pupil communities
Academy proprietors are listed public authorities, and MATs face the duty at scale: each harmonised policy — behaviour, uniform, admissions, attendance, SEND, staffing — applies across schools with very different pupil communities. Central teams are small, policy review calendars are unforgiving, and the question "did we consider equality impact?" is asked by trustees, unions and parents alike.
What changes
Built for the way trusts actually work
Trust-wide register, school-level awareness
Assess each policy once, drawing on evidence for the communities your schools serve — with each figure labelled by area, so where communities differ the analysis can say so.
Aligned to your policy calendar
Review dates track your policy cycle, so each policy's assessment resurfaces exactly when the policy does.
Evidence trustees can see
A live register of assessments, actions and review status — governance assurance for board and local committees alike.
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.
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What your assessments draw on
- Pupil and education demographic evidence, built into your evidence base during onboarding
- Local area data for your schools' communities
- A curated evidence base of approved organisations including children's and education research, cited by characteristic
- Your own pupil-population data, added privately
Questions
Common questions from trusts
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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