Step 10: Meeting compliance and the compliance checking process
Not sure what the minimum requirements are? Refer to What am I required to do?(opens in a new window)
After you submit your GEAP, it will be reviewed for compliance.
Compliance review is a rigorous, multistage process. It ensures fairness and thoroughness.
We appreciate your patience during the compliance review process.
We will provide updates on the status of the compliance review through our newsletters and direct email communications.
Meeting compliance (assessment rubric)
The compliance assessment rubric will be published here in the second half of 2025.
Compliance checking process
Your GEAP will be assessed for compliance under section 10 of the Gender Equality Act 2020.
Your GEAP will be assessed against a compliance rubric.9
If you submitted your GEAP via the platform, you will receive a notification when your GEAP status changes to ‘checking for compliance’.
Your compliance outcomes will be sent to your reporting process owner (RPO), your CEO (or equivalent) and your board Chair (if you have one) at the same time.
Feedback and next steps
After the compliance review, we will tell you whether your GEAP meets compliance requirements. Feedback will include:
- whether your GEAP is compliant
- a compliance outcome against each of the compliance criteria
- requirement to resubmit (within a specified timeframe) if compliance issues are identified
- further information on next steps.
What you can do while you wait for feedback
Start implementing your GEAP strategies. Do not wait for your compliance outcome.
Keep your team informed about the process and next steps.
Develop materials to announce and explain the GEAP to your organisation.
Keep up your gender impact assessments(opens in a new window) (GIA).
Footnotes
9. This will be published in the third quarter of 2025.
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