Equality and Children’s Rights Impact Assessment

NHS Lothian is committed to ensuring that all decisions, policies, and practices help to achieve equity and uphold children’s human rights.

The Equality and Children’s Rights Impact Assessment (ECRIA) Policy provides a structured and consistent approach to integrate consideration of equality and children’s rights into decision-making processes.

Implementation of the ECRIA policy will support NHS Lothian:

• Achieve its ambition of improving the health of everyone in Lothian.
• Staff to demonstrate our organisational values of care and compassion, dignity and respect, quality, teamwork and openness, honesty and responsibility.
• Comply with its equality and children’s human rights statutory duties.