Champion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
1.1 – My role requires me to support individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds. As a senior I have to ensure my staff have a clear and full understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and to ensure that they put this into their daily practises.
Diversity – This literally means difference. Although people have things in common they are also very different and unique in many ways. Recognising and valuing differences with both visible and invisible factors. This could be recognising an individual’s personal characteristics such as background, culture, personality including race, disability, gender, religion, belief, sexual orientation and age.
Equality – This is treating everyone in a fair manner appropriate to their needs. This is also a current term for ‘Equal Opportunities’. This protects people from being discriminated against on grounds of their differences.
Inclusion – This simply means ‘the state of being included’. It is used by disability rights activists to promote the idea that all people should be freely and openly accommodated without restrictions or limitations of any kind.
There is a wide range of legislation and currents codes of practise that provide a framework to model the policies and practise within my workplace. This is naturally incorporated in our day to day practises.
As a senior, it’s my responsibility to challenge any discrimination and also to enforce my staff to do this also. This protects people with protective characteristics such as age, race or disability.
For example, in my previous workplace we had an individual that had herpes. I had staff members that didn’t want to support this lady with personal care because of this medical condition. Once I challenged the said staff were put in a disciplinary.All staff have a duty to report unfair policies or procedures that mean that individuals are treated in a harmful, unfair or illegal way.
It is very important to take individual’s own personal preferences into account
Diversity – This literally means difference. Although people have things in common they are also very different and unique in many ways. Recognising and valuing differences with both visible and invisible factors. This could be recognising an individual’s personal characteristics such as background, culture, personality including race, disability, gender, religion, belief, sexual orientation and age.
Equality – This is treating everyone in a fair manner appropriate to their needs. This is also a current term for ‘Equal Opportunities’. This protects people from being discriminated against on grounds of their differences.
Inclusion – This simply means ‘the state of being included’. It is used by disability rights activists to promote the idea that all people should be freely and openly accommodated without restrictions or limitations of any kind.
There is a wide range of legislation and currents codes of practise that provide a framework to model the policies and practise within my workplace. This is naturally incorporated in our day to day practises.
As a senior, it’s my responsibility to challenge any discrimination and also to enforce my staff to do this also. This protects people with protective characteristics such as age, race or disability.
For example, in my previous workplace we had an individual that had herpes. I had staff members that didn’t want to support this lady with personal care because of this medical condition. Once I challenged the said staff were put in a disciplinary.All staff have a duty to report unfair policies or procedures that mean that individuals are treated in a harmful, unfair or illegal way.
It is very important to take individual’s own personal preferences into account