Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership Equality Outcomes 2024-2028

What you told us

In February 2025, the Aberdeenshire Integration Joint Board (IJB) considered a report regarding the delivery of the IJBs Equality Outcomes 2020 – 2024. The report also outlined the feedback received from the engagement undertaken in October 2024 to help develop the IJBs revised Equality Outcomes.

As agreed with the IJB in February 2025, consultation on the Aberdeenshire IJBs 3 draft Equality Outcomes was undertaken with Aberdeenshire public and Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care (AHSCP) staff in March and April 2025. This included online surveys and a series of facilitated conversations with community groups, including key equality groups. The public and AHSCP staff surveys asked respondents to indicate if each of the draft outcomes were easy to understand, the perceived importance of each of the outcomes, and provided contributors with an opportunity to provide other comments – including indicating if there were other issues that could be taken into consideration in finalising the outcomes. In addition to this, the AHSCP staff survey asked respondents how they and their service or team could support the delivery of the outcomes.

Overall, respondents felt that the draft Equality Outcomes were easy to understand and were perceived to be important. The Outcomes were as follows:

• Draft Equality Outcome 1 – People with protected characteristics in Aberdeenshire have improved health and wellbeing outcomes through the adoption of an equality driven culture within the Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership;
• Draft Equality Outcome 2 – People with protected characteristics in Aberdeenshire are aware of Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnerships services and how to access them;
• Draft Equality Outcome 3 – People with key protected characteristics, their families and organisations that support them are involved in the planning and decision making around our service delivery

Key issues highlighted from the engagement work on the draft set of new Equality Outcomes included the importance of everyone being treated equally; the opportunity to access services in a flexible way; the importance of communicating in a clear and simple way, and the need to be aware of potential digital exclusion.

For AHSCP staff, the importance of having up to date information/advice available and having awareness of available training opportunities were highlighted. However, staff also highlighted perceived challenges in supporting the delivery of the outcomes due to staff recruitment and budget constraints.

What We’re Doing

The Integration Joint Board will receive a report on the key findings from the consultation on the new draft Equality Outcomes in September 2025, after which the Outcomes will be finalised and an Action Plan developed.

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