As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check your job advert against the Equality Act.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the current equality and discrimination guidance on GOV.UK and keep it available while you work.
   2. Gather the complete advert, the role description, the genuine essential requirements, the location, the working pattern and the planned recruitment steps.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt, replacing every bracketed slot and removing personal information that is not needed.
   4. Ask the chatbot to separate clear wording problems from possible concerns and from issues requiring an employment solicitor or qualified HR adviser.
   5. Compare every flagged point with the current GOV.UK guidance and the actual duties of the role, rejecting any suggestion based on facts the chatbot has invented.
   6. Rewrite the advert only where the replacement still describes a genuine role requirement, then ask a UK employment solicitor or qualified HR adviser to check any unresolved or serious concern before publication.

   Prompt

   Act as a cautious UK employment-law editing assistant, not a solicitor. Review the job advert below against the Equality Act and current UK government guidance available on 2026-08-13. Do not give a definitive legal opinion and do not invent facts, case law, sources or requirements.
   
   Separate your response into:
   1. Exact wording that may create a risk of direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, harassment or an unjustified requirement.
   2. Why each item may be risky, naming the protected characteristic only where the wording supports it.
   3. A neutral replacement that keeps the genuine business requirement and does not add an unsupported requirement.
   4. Requirements or wording that cannot be assessed without more context.
   5. Questions an employment solicitor or HR specialist should answer before publication.
   6. A final checklist of factual points I must confirm myself against current GOV.UK guidance.
   
   Distinguish between a clear wording problem, a possible concern and an issue that needs professional advice. Do not remove a genuine occupational requirement unless the facts support it. Do not assume that a friendly or inclusive tone makes the advert lawful.
   
   Role and recruitment context:
   - Job title: [job title]
   - Employer and sector: [employer and sector]
   - Location and working pattern: [location, office, remote or hybrid details]
   - Genuine duties and essential requirements: [paste the factual role requirements]
   - Recruitment process: [application, assessment, interview and screening details]
   
   Job advert:
   [paste the complete advert]
   
   Use plain British English. End with the sentence: "This is not professional advice. For a serious or uncertain case, ask a UK employment solicitor or qualified HR adviser to check the advert before publication."

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.