Equality legislation – a summary The following is a guide only to the legislation currently in place that impacts on equality and diversity issues‚ and is not a comprehensive list. 1970 The Equal Pay Act (EPA) (as amended)‚ makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate between men and women in terms of their pay and conditions (including pay‚ holiday entitlement‚ pension etc) where they are doing the same or similar work; work rated as equivalent; or work of equal value. 1974 The
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TDA24-1 Understand the importance of promoting equality and diversity in work with children and young people TDA24-1-1 Identify the current legislation and codes of practice relevant to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity. It is essential that every school must produce a range of policies which formally sets out the guidelines and procedures for ensuring equality. Legislation | Purpose | Disability Discrimination Act 1995 | Protects the rights of all those with disabilities
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Equality and Diversity In my assignment I am going to discuss promoting equality and diversity. A description of the importance of supporting the rights of all children and young people to participation and equality to access. The importance of supporting the rights of children and young people is that not all children are the same. They learn at different paces and many need support to help them e.g. one to one teaching‚ speech therapy‚ disability problems ect. They all deserve the right to learn
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NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity Session 4: Prejudice and discrimination What does it mean? In a diverse society where each individual may have lots of different characteristics and qualities‚ there are many opportunities for people to label and stereotype others. When this happens‚ it can create an environment where prejudice and discrimination may be found. A prejudice is an unfair or unreasonable preconceived view or judgement
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will demonstrate my understanding of equality and diversity as a key approach to policy and practice within my setting. I will make reference to current legislation such as equal pay act‚ disability discrimination act‚ sex discrimination act and equality act. Other areas of discriminatory practice I will discuss are language and terminology‚ stereotyping and attitudes in relation to children and young people. I will explore anti discriminatory practice and diversity that is within the everyday role of
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Unit 503 – champion equality‚ diversity and inclusion 1. Understand diversity‚ equality and inclusion in own area of responsibility 1.1 Explain the models of practice that underpin equality‚ diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibility There are two models that link with equality‚ diversity and inclusion‚ the first one is the social model of disability which views discrimination and prejudice as being embedded in today’s society‚ their attitude’s and their surrounding environment
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stratification (Parsons‚ 1970). Whilst complete societal equality may be unattainable‚ Equal Opportunities (EO) policies aim to ‘reduce the gap’. Inequality takes different forms and there is much theoretical debate regarding which grouping variables‚ such as gender or age‚ are important. There exist three key notions of ‘equality of opportunity’: formal‚ liberal and radical. The former two are minimalist concepts‚ concerned principally with equality of opportunity - the ‘beginning’ of the process. Conversely
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SHC33: Promote equality and inclusion in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s 1.3 Explain how inclusive practice promotes equality and supports diversity Inclusive practice promotes a child’s right to access to equal opportunities. By ensuring that this happens promotes diversity. There are various pieces of legislation which have been put in place to promote equality and reduce discrimination. These include: • The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 • The Special Educational
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pieces of legislations promotion of equality and valuing of diversity Legislation Purposes Disability Discrimination Act 1995 This legislation protects the rights of disable persons and also eliminates the barrier to gaining equal access. Disability Discrimination Act 2005 Places a duty for schools to produce a Disability Equality Scheme (DES) and an Access Plan. Schools must encourage participation in all aspects of school life and eliminate harassment and unlawful discrimination Race
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NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Equality and Diversity Unit 1: Exploring Equality and Diversity Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. • The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk • Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly • When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference • Then‚ go to www.vision2learnforschools.com and send your completed Assessment to your teacher
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