Outline the key features and evaluate how the Equality Act 2010 protects older people.
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Outline the key features and evaluate how the Equality Act 2010 protects older people. [10marks] The Equality Act (2010) protects older people from direct and indirect discrimination that are based on a protected characteristic, such as; age, marital status, sexual orientation, race, disability, religion and etc. The Act simplifies current equality laws and puts them in one piece of legislation that includes all public bodies, which would make the law stronger in some places, such as England and Wales. The Act emphasis on promoting equality rather than reducing inequality in disadvantage groups, such as elderly people. The rights of an elderly person is protected in the Equality Act to ensure that they receive fair treatment when using a service. This means that it is illegal to directly discriminate an elderly service user or employee based on a protected characteristic. Further, making it illegal for an organisation to indirectly discriminate an elderly service user or employee by putting policies, rules or ways of doing things that would have a negative impact on them. However, the Equality Act has an exemption for age discrimination; it is still allowed as long as it has a legitimate aim. This means an employer or a service provider must justify the reason why they are discriminating on the basis of age. For example, an employer could have
Equality and Diversity. In October 2010 a new law about discrimination is being introduced. This is called the Equality & Diversity Act 2010. This makes the rights that you have at the moment stronger, and also gives you some new rights.
Equality is that no one should be denied opportunities because of their race or ethnicity, their gender or sexual orientation, their disability, their age or religion. There is no single definition of diversity it is commonly accepted as recognising and valuing the differences between individuals and the contributions they make and treating them fairly and with respect. Unlike the traditional approach to Equal Opportunities which focus on legal compliance through equal treatment, diversity takes on a 'difference' approach and reflects initiatives that are internally driven and proactive in bringing about organisational change. DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination means treating someone worse than other people for some reason. At the moment, you have rights not to be treated worse than other people, in some situations, because of your: * age * disability * race * religion or belief * sex * sexual orientation * Gender identity. In October 2010 a new law about discrimination is being introduced. This is called the Equality & Diversity Act 2010. This makes the rights that you have at the moment stronger, and also gives you some new rights. For example, the Equality & Diversity Act includes making it clearer that you can't be treated worse than other people because of your changed gender, your marriage or civil partnership, your pregnancy or maternity, or because you're a
How the Equality Act, Employment Act and Health and Safety at Work Act affect Primark.
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Equality Act 2010 The equality act 2010 sets out the requirements for keeping people safe in the working environment. This includes keeping an accident book and recording all visitors entering the business. This act protects people from discrimination over their race , gender , age , sexual orientation , civil partnership and if they are pregnant . Designing the job advert and deciding where to advertise the vacancy . In the job advert Primark cannot advertise that they require a male sales assistant as they would be strong enough to carry boxes of clothing from the stock room .In the job advert they cannot advertise asking for a female because they may know more about fashion. In the job advert Primark cannot state they would like an employee from the ages of 18 to 30 because Primark need the shelves to be stacked and the stock to be moved at a fast rate . In the job advert Primark cannot state different rates of pay for different genders on the job advert . Primark would receive fines and get a bad reputation as they would have broken the equality act 2010 , which would lead to Primark being unable to attract quality staff . If Primark was unable to attract staff , the clothes would not be replenished and there would be no stock for the customers to buy . To avoid facing these implications HR should ensure that the job advert
How Legislation aims to stop discrimination. Naima is rejected form a job within a shop which would have involved speaking t o customers. She was told that her English wasnt good enough. The act (Equality Act 2010) policy is to protect the rights
The Equality Act 2010 Following my report it seems to me that there are some things that could have be done for example there is a law called The Equality Act 2010. This law is the replace of the other acts that protected people from discrimination these acts are: The Sex Discrimination Act 1975, The Race Relation Act 1995, The Equal Pay Act and The Discrimination Act. The Equality Act 2010 protects people form lots of different discrimination that is targeted to someone. Naima is rejected form a job within a shop which would have involved speaking t o customers. She was told that her English wasn't good enough. The act (Equality Act 2010) policy is to protect the rights of individuals and there opportunities within the protected characteristics. * Disability * Gender reassignment * Marriage or civil partnership * Pregnancy and maternity * Race * Religion and Belief * Sexual Orientation * Sex (Gender) * Age This will protect Naima because her characteristic is Race and she was discriminated directly against because she has a really strong accent and is hard to understand. Also possibly because her clothes that she is wearing is different from the people working there. Another situation that occurred would be that Naima is a target of bulling and being victimised by another co-worker in the care home. The co-worker calls her "that wog". That would come under the
Concepts of Equality, Diversity and Care
Transfer-Encoding: chunked Concepts of Equality, Diversity, and Care http://patimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/equality.jpg What is Equality, Diversity and Care? * Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated fairly and equally and no less favourably, specific to their needs, including areas of race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation and age. * Diversity aims to recognise, respect and value people’s differences to contribute and realise their full potential by promoting an inclusive culture for all staff and students. * Care is the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something/ Serious attention or consideration applied to doing something correctly or to avoid damage or risk. Equality and Diversity can be promoted by: * Treating all staff and students fairly * Creating an inclusive culture for all staff and students * Ensuring equal access to opportunities to enable students to fully participate in the learning process * Enabling all staff and students to develop to their full potential * Equipping staff and students with the skills to challenge inequality and discrimination in their work/study environment * Making certain that any learning materials do not discriminate against any individuals or groups
The law should promote financial equality in ancillary proceedings following divorce
The law should promote financial equality in ancillary proceedings following divorce. Discuss. Following a divorce, the court has wide powers to redistribute the parties' property1. When redistributing the parties' property, the court has to take into account the factors listed in s.25 of the Martimonial Causes Act 19732. The House of Lords' decision in the case of White v White3 introduced the 'yardstick of equality' promotes financial equality in the ancillary proceedings following divorce. However, not all ancillary proceedings cases are decided equally such as that in J v J4. Furthermore, the courts often find it difficult to divide the property equally between each parties due to the circumstances of the parties such of which will be discussed below. According to 'Weitzman, in an American study, it was found that women suffered a 73 per cent decline in their post-divorce standard of living'5. This should encourage the law in promoting financial equality in ancillary proceedings. However, equality could mean either equality of outcome or equality of opportunity as pointed out by Eekelaar6. In addition, the court must als take into consideration the state's interests such as saving public money, child care issues, the children's interest, the symbolic value of child care, the stability of marriage, post-divorce life as well as sex discrimination on how the parties'
Equality and Diversity
P4 - Describe how legislation, codes of practise, rules of conduct, charter and organisation policies are used to promote anti-discriminatory practise Introduction In this assignment I will be describing how legislation, codes of practise, rules of conduct, charter and organisation policies are used to help promote anti-discriminatory practise in health and care work placements The legislations that supports to promote equality and diversity is: * Human Rights Act 1998 * Sex Discrimination Act 1975 * Care Standards Act 2000 - * Disability Discrimination Act 2005 * Race Relations (Amendment ) Act, 2000 Human Rights Act 1998 - This act allows all the individuals to react against establishments like police and government, if they think that their rights have had a negative affect. All health and care authorities are included in this act and they must respect the rights of an individual. This promotes anti-discriminatory practise by providing each and every individual with rights. Giving them the equal amount of right is being equal and giving it to every one who's different is promoting diversity. Sex Discrimination Act 1975 - This act supports both of the gender, men and women. It has been introduced in order to provide everyone with equal rights relative to employment and services. It handles with both direct and in-direct discrimination caused due to the
Equality, Diversity & Rights
Hayley Baxter Unit 2 Equality, Diversity And Rights Benefits of diversity to society and the effects of discrimination on service users For this assignment I have been asked to produce a report indentifying the benefits of diversity to society these include factors such as arts, food, education, language, cultural enrichment, tolerance and social cohesion. Within this report I am going to use recognised terminology, to explain the importance of promoting equality, diversity and rights in health and social care settings. * Equality as indentified in the oxford dictionary >The state of being equal. The same size, quantity, quality, extent, level, status etc. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/equality?view=uk Equality is about creating a fairer society where everyone can participate and have the same opportunity to fulfil their potential. It is about ensuring that there is equal access to health care providers and job opportunities for everyone in our society. Equality is backed by legislation designed to address unfair discrimination based on membership of a particular group. Key legislation acts that best underpin equality include: * Race Relations Act 1976, * Sex Discrimination Act 1975, * Disability Discrimination Act 1995 * Human Rights Act 1998. * Diversity as indentified in the oxford dictionary > noun (pl. diversities) 1 the state of being diverse. 2
To what extent did women gain social equality during the 1920s?
To what extent did women gain social equality during the 1920’s? Shelley Ross Ms. Vitere IB History Word count: 1858 Plan of Investigation To what extent did women gain social equality during the 1920’s? To explore the topic of women in the 1920’s, cultural changes among women are explored. Changes in laws, rights &culture were investigated. Details include attempts women made for equal rights, & women’s overall behavioral changes through the 1920’s. Social &political issues affected women across the United States during the 1920’s, which caused social differences, new to the United States. Women started campaigning for equal rights. New jobs, &achievements of women are explored, as well as events during the time period that may have influenced them. Included in this investigation will be a conclusion of the extent that women gained social equality during the 1920’s. Sources chosen for the investigation are American Women Writers by Laurie Champion &Emmanuel S. Nelson, No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States by Nancy F. Cott, Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise and Pain by David E. Kyvig, and Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics by Laura van Assendelft &Jeffrey D. Schultz. These sources have information relating to the topic of women in the 1920’s, and will provide insight of changes in women’s
The two government policies that I have chosen to write a word report about is the Equality act and Environmental change act.
The two government policies that I have chosen to write a word report about is the equality act and environmental change act. Equality Act The Equality Act, which came into force at the beginning of February 2004, seeks to restore this problem. The purpose of the Act is to foster equality and increase the protection provided by law to those who have experienced discrimination. The Equality Act prohibits discrimination based on age, racial or ethnic origin, citizenship, language, religion or belief, conviction, opinion, state of health, disability, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics. The equality act has a big impact on all of the public services. In every single public service you would get people who are from different ethic background, ages, sex, and religion. In the public services they all would have to get along with each other and respect each others beliefs, regardless of all the differences. In the police force the current recruitment status is that they require more ethnic backgrounds to apply for the position of police officers. In the police force, at the current climate it is very lucky that you would get police officers from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds and different beliefs. The aim of the equality act has had a big impact on the police force because before you would have only seen white police officers but since the act has been
