The Improvement Service (IS), in conjunction with COSLA, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Scottish Government, have been considering how best to support local authorities and their partners to respond to their equalities duties and to improve how they track equalities against key outcomes. The Commission has agreed to fund a project that will be managed and delivered by the IS.
Main aims include:

• Develop… practical solutions to improve the equalities evidence base at the local level, and pilot a sample of these solutions [in four council areas]
• Develop a shared understanding of equality and ‘what works’ around equalities measurement and management for participating councils and the wider local government and public services community.