PHS FOI 2024-001913
- Date of request
- 30 July 2024
- Date of response
- 27 August 2024
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2024-001913
- Corporate information
Request
I am aware that Scottish government has launched a project known as the ‘Pride Badge and Pride Pledge’ following work undertaken by a Working Group in 2020, and that the project was launched in the middle of the Covid pandemic. Individual NHS Boards were invited to opt-in to the project.
Within that context and in line with the Freedom of Information [Scotland] Act 2022, I am writing to ask you to provide me with:
- the identity of the Public Health Scotland [PHS] employee responsible for signing-off the decision that PHS participate in the project and who authorised the launch
- a summary of the PHS project, including costings, outcomes set for success, data gathering and handling arrangements, overall timetable, and plans for project evaluation
- a copy of the government circular distributed to all Health Boards advising of the project and setting out the terms of how Health Boards could opt-in to the project
- the date when the project as operated by PHS came to an end
- how many employees in PHS signed up to wear the badge and take the pledge
- how many employees in PHS still deemed ‘active’ badge wearers and upholders of the pledge
- what data gathering and recording system is used to log PHS employees who are badge wearers and pledge upholders, and what level of security is attached to accessing the data
- a copy of a formal evaluation of the PHS project
- the identity of the employee responsible for deciding that the PHS ‘Pride Badge and Pride Pledge’ project did not need to be subject to an Equality & Diversity Impact Assessment before being activated
- what arrangements, allowances or mitigations in the design and implementation of the project were put in place by PHS to avoid any adverse impact on people who hold beliefs which are commonly termed ‘gender critical’ and who do not accept the concept that transwomen can be women