Impact assessment

GCSE content: equality analysis

Analysis of the effect of reformed GCSE history, geography, science and language content on specific protected groups.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 9 April 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

GCSE equality analysis

Ref: DFE-00344-2014

PDF, 273 KB, 24 pages

Details

An assessment of the effect of reformed GCSE content being introduced in 2016 on groups with relevant protected characteristics.

The relevant protected characteristics, identified in the Equality Act 2010, include:

• disability
• gender reassignment
• pregnancy and maternity
• race
• religion or belief
• sex and sexual orientation

Published 9 April 2014