How to resubmit your gender equality action plan

If your 2026 gender equality action plan (GEAP) is in a status of ‘Re-submission required’, it does not meet at least one or more requirements under the Gender Equality Act 2020 or Gender Equality Regulations 2020.

If your GEAP did not meet compliance, you can address the identified issues by amending and resubmitting your GEAP by 2 November 2026.

See the instructions below to resubmit your GEAP.

Review your compliance outcome report

Duty holders have now received their 2026 GEAP compliance outcome report. These were sent to heads of organisation, board chairs and reporting process owners.

You can also access your compliance outcome report on the reporting platform:

  1. Open your 2026 GEAP obligation in the reporting platform
  2. Scroll down to ‘Compliance feedback’. Download the attached 2026 compliance outcome report.

The ‘findings’ section of the compliance outcome report identifies each criterion assessed as not demonstrating compliance. It will provide:

  • the compliance outcome for each criterion
  • a link to our detailed web guidance on how to address compliance issues for each criterion.

Use the compliance outcome report to amend your GEAP and address the identified compliance issues.

Complete the ‘Actions taken’ form

Download the Actions taken document here:

GEAP re-submission form - Actions taken
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After updating your GEAP, please complete the Actions taken document:

  1. Complete the ‘Actions taken’ table in the document. For each criterion, mark whether you have addressed the identified compliance issue. You should also list the page number(s) where you have made these changes.
  2. Complete the attestation in the document. This confirms that you have addressed the issues identified in your GEAP compliance outcome report. The attestation can be completed by anyone in your organisation with access to the reporting platform.
  3. Upload the Actions taken document to the reporting platform. Do this when resubmitting your GEAP. Follow the instructions below.

Resubmit to the reporting platform

  1. Open your 2026 GEAP obligation in the reporting platform
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Edit’. This will move your GEAP back to ‘Drafting’
  3. Remove your existing GEAP from the Main document section by clicking on the ‘X Remove’ button. If appropriate, remove any optional supporting documents
  4. Upload your updated GEAP by selecting ‘+Choose’ in the Main document section
  5. Upload your Actions taken document by selecting ‘+Choose’ in the Optional supporting documents (not to be published) section
  6. Once both documents are uploaded, complete the attestations and click ‘submit’.

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