The council carries out impact assessments to:
- make sure we consider how the things we do and changes we make impact on different groups
- show how we meet our obligations to pay due regard to issues relating to equalities, inequalities of opportunity, children’s rights and wellbeing, consumers, and island communities.
In 2025, we made changes to the council’s impact assessment process. We did this because the number of impact assessment frameworks has increased.
The Integrated Impact Assessment tool includes the following impact assessments:
- Equality
- Fairer Scotland Duty
- Island Communities
- Children’s Rights and Wellbeing
- Consumer Duty.
2025
2025-2026 Budget Preparation
- Governance Team Restructure
- Development Policy and Housing
- Community Planning and Community Development
2024
- Corporate Debt Recovery Policy
- º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute British Sign Language Plan
- Volunteer Policy and Procedure
- Early Years grants savings
- Community grants savings
- Strategic events and festivals grants savings
- Positive Starts savings
- Governance Team restructure
- People Strategy and Strategic Workforce Planning Priorities
- Double Charge Council Tax on Second Homes
2023
- Our Modern Workspace
- Customer Engagement Team Budget Gap Restructure Proposals
- Removal of School Crossing Patrollers from º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute Council
- Service concession flexibility
- Revenues and Benefits º£½ÇÉçÇø
- Building Standards
- Education (CAST support)
2022
- Provision of free period products
- Local Housing Strategy 2022-2027 - Island Communities Impact Assessment
- School Leadership Transformation in º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute
- Education Transformation programme School Leadership consultation
- Taxi /private hire car driver medicals
- Review of Gambling Policy Statement
- Covid recovery plan
- Covid recovery plan - evidences
- Short term lets licensing
- Introduction of the Scottish Governments Period Products (Free Provision)
- º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute Employability Partnership (ABEP) Delivery Plan, 2022-25
- Child poverty action plan review
- Child poverty action plan - equality impact assessment
2021
- Do not replace independent chair of panel
- Bring back urology services from NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and offer from Oban Hospital instead
- Only pay for escort travel where it is essential
- Pay for care home placements for older people in line with national contract with no added enhancements
- When a new client is assessed as requiring 24 hour care offer to fund a package of care at home up to £30k, allowing the service user to fund the additional hours of care if they chose to remain at home
- Redirect Oban Integrated Care Funding to pay for day responder service as in other areas
- Remove funding for all lunch clubs
- Reduce payments to voluntary organisations for non-contracted services
- End Service Level Agreement for commissioned advocacy service and replace with signposting to other services
- End grants paid to link clubs, some of which are no longer providing services
- Encourage clients to have individual tenancies with housing association encouraging fuller independence for clients
- Reduce Senior Dental Officer post by 0.4 WTE
- Remove advanced nurse vulnerable groups post
2020
- Youth Justice Strategy Project
- Oban staff co-location and redesign of the footprint of Lorne Resource Centre (LRC) and Lynnside Day Centre (LDC)
- Dementia º£½ÇÉçÇø Redesign
- Catering Provision Across º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute-Implementation of Universal Free School Meals-Early Years
- Review of AHP workforce, redesign of services and efficiencies in non-pay budgets. (Non-pays is any budget for supplies and expenses.)
- Business Admin transformation (HSCP)
- Review of care at home service support for people living in Bowman Court (independent tenancies) and patients receiving inpatient care at MICH (3 bedded in patient unit).
- Review of provision of day services for older people
- Review of Maternity º£½ÇÉçÇø
- Budget Saving - Children and Families Health Teams £100K from Health Visiting and School Nursing
- Social Work Admin Service Review
- Budget Saving Social Work Children and Families: SLA with GG&C for CAMHS service (Fusions)
- Review of Children’s Social Care Staffing
- Consolidation of the SLG Living Wage and modernisation of LGE pay and grading structure and employment deal
2020-2021 Budget Preparation
- 2020-2021 Budget Preparation Savings CSS02 – Customer Service Centre and Registration º£½ÇÉçÇø
- 2020-2021 Budget Preparation: Commercial º£½ÇÉçÇø; CS01 – Remodel Estates Staff Structure
- 2020-2021 Budget Preparation: Commercial º£½ÇÉçÇø; CS02 – Remodel Business Support in Estates, Programme Management and Property º£½ÇÉçÇø
- Remodel Property Officer Team – CS03
- DEG01 – Economic Growth – 7% Savings
- Transformation Projects and Regeneration
- PE Facilities
- Enterprise
- Reduction of the Educational Psychology Service by 22%
- CAST (Creative Art in Schools Team) support
- Quality Assessment and Moderation
- Admin and Finance Assistants
- 16+ Learning Choices
- Swimming Pool Subsidies (Islay & Jura)
- Swimming Pool Subsidies (Mid º£½ÇÉçÇø)
- Additional Support Needs (activities)
- Central Team Savings
- Community Learning Service Savings 20/21
- Pupil Support Assistants
- Withdrawal of Third Sector Grants (unrelated to delivery of 1140hrs) / Review of Early Years staffing
- Budget savings proposals 2020/21: combined EqSEIA
- Procurement & Contract Management Team realignment
- Advice º£½ÇÉçÇø Team review
- Removal of School Crossing Patrollers from º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute Council
- Burials and Cremations
- Public conveniences
2019
- Removal of School Crossing Patrollers within º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute
- Reduction in staff for roads maintenance team
- Reduction in Grounds and Environment budget
- Reduction in staff for Amenity º£½ÇÉçÇø Enforcement
- Removal of Road Safety Unit
- Reconstructing the Council’s budget -Business Gateway budget template
- Reconstructing the council’s budget – Instrumental Music Tuition Service
- Review of Community Learning (Youth and Adult Learning Provision)
- Reduction in maintenance of street lighting columns and lights
- º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute Council Budget 2019-20
- Rezoning catchment of St Columba's School
- Wellbeing Strategy
- Procurement Strategy and Sustainable Procurement Policy 2020/2021
2018
- Waste - Maximise Income from Commercial Agreements
- Strategic Transportation Airport Commercialisation
- Removal of Road Safety Unit (Rapid Impact Assessment)
- Removal of Road Safety Unit (Health and Safety Impact Assessment)
- Removal of Community Transport Grants Model
- Rationalisation of Public Toilets
- Increase of Parking Charges
- Economic Development Service Redesign
- Depot Rationalisation
- Combine Roads and Amenity Operations Under Single Area Management
- ICT Production Team - Service Desk
- ICT Production Team - Print Room
- Review of Non-Domestic Rates (NDR), Sundry Debt, BIDs and MACC billing and collection, and Cash Collection
- Review of the Administration of Council Tax and Housing Benefit, Scottish Welfare Fund, Welfare Reform and Anti-Poverty
- Budget Reconstruction Proposal - Customer Service Points (CSPs)
- Creditors Section – reconstructing the council’s budget–saving of two posts over two years
- Equality and Diversity policy
2017
- º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute Manager Programme
- Local Development Plan
- Procurement and Commissioning Strategy 2018-19
- Single Investment Plan - Rural Growth Deal
- Housing Benefit Overpayment Recovery and Debt Collection Procedure
- Sundry Debtors Policy
2016
- Removal of school crossing patrollers
- Closure of public toilets
- Changes to bin collections
- º£½ÇÉçÇø and Bute HSCP Strategic Plan 2016
- Psychology º£½ÇÉçÇø - Service Choices
- Secondary Schools - All other costs - Service Choices
- Primary Schools - All other costs - Service Choices
- Early Years - Service Choices
- Education Support and Janitorial º£½ÇÉçÇø - Service Choices
- Education, Music Instruction and Creative Arts - Service Choices
- Additional Support Needs - Service Choices
- Reduction in Expenditure on Tenancy º£½ÇÉçÇø - Service Choices
- Adult Learning and Literacies - Service Choices
- Rapid Impact Assessment - Procurement and Commissioning Strategy
