Impact assessment

Improving adult basic digital skills: equality impact assessment

An analysis of the impact of reforms designed to improve adult basic digital skills on specific protected groups of people.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 23 April 2019

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Improving adult basic skills: equality impact assessment

Ref: DfE-00080-2019

PDF, 679 KB, 23 pages

Details

An assessment of the impact of new national standards for essential digital skills and the introduction of a national entitlement on people with protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010.

The impact is assessed based on proposals outlined in the government response published in April 2019.

The relevant protected characteristics include:

• disability
• gender reassignment
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex
• sexual orientation

Published 23 April 2019