Equality monitoring is an optional part of your Navigatr profile where you can share sensitive demographic information about yourself. Every question is optional, and your responses help providers spot barriers to participation without ever identifying you.
This guide walks you through where to find the page, what you can share, and how your information is used.
Finding your equality monitoring page
Equality monitoring lives in your account settings, separate from the rest of your profile.
To open the page:
Sign in to your Navigatr account.
Open Settings from the main menu.
Select Equality Monitoring from the settings sidebar.
What you can share
The page is grouped into sections, each covering a different protected characteristic. You can fill in as many or as few as you like, and you can update or clear your answers at any time.
The sections are:
Age, sex, and disability: age band, sex, and disability status. If you tell us you have a disability, you can also share how much it affects your daily activities.
Caring responsibilities: whether you provide unpaid care for children, someone with a disability, or an elderly person.
Relationship and identity: your relationship status.
National identity: how you describe your national identity.
Ethnic group: the ethnic group you most identify with.
Religion: your religion or belief.
Sexual orientation: how you describe your sexual orientation.
Every drop-down on this page includes a Prefer not to say option, so you never have to choose an answer you are not comfortable with. Leaving a section blank works just as well.
How your data is used
Your equality monitoring answers are treated with care. We collect this information so that providers can report on programme outcomes in anonymised, aggregated form, which helps them identify and remove barriers to participation.
Tip: This data is private to you. It is never shared with anyone individually. Only anonymised aggregates may appear in survey outcome metrics.
Your information is also included if you ever ask for a copy of your data under GDPR. For the full process, see Requesting a Copy of Your Data and Badges.
Equality monitoring in pathway surveys
Some pathway surveys may ask for equality monitoring information. You will see a notice at the start of the survey letting you know, and you can answer the questions, skip them, or choose Prefer not to say, just like in your settings.
Anything you share through a survey is handled with the same privacy protections as the information you save in your settings. Your individual responses are never shared with the provider running the pathway. See Completing a Pathway Survey for more on how surveys work.
Still have questions about equality monitoring or your data? Email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help.