Exemplar Of P1 For The Students 1 
Introduction
In a health and social care environment equality diversity and rights are essential to ensure everyone is provided with their rights and is treated fairly despite their race, age, culture or sex. It also ensures that individuals are able to fully participate in our society and able to access all opportunities that are available within it.
When thinking about the term `Equality’ it generally means that we treat all individuals and groups fairly and according to their individual needs. This concept is embodied in our laws, which ensure that people are not treated differently, as they had been in the past, whereby women often had little or no rights. Today, women now have the right to vote, the same as their male counterparts. In the past, there has been a great deal of social inequality, with some individuals and groups, often being marginalised or socially excluded due to the fact that they were different. Most notably, after World War 2 there were many immigrants from the commonwealth who came to help rebuild Britain and took jobs that many people felt were beneath them. However, many of these immigrants were not accepted and faced a great deal of overt discrimination as many citizens would not allow them to rent rooms in their property and would display signs that said `No Irish, No Blacks and No Dogs’. They would also be verbally abused and called names such as `n****r’, which is known as racism and physically attacked due to their differences.
When thinking about the situation in the past in respect to a health and social care, certain groups within our society would often be made to feel as though they didn’t belong in our society and were often disadvantaged in our society. Namely, children and adults with physical disabilities were often institutionalised, almost as if the slogan `out of sight, out of mind’ were being applied to them. Those with less severe disabilities such as hearing or visual impairments or those who today, we
In a health and social care environment equality diversity and rights are essential to ensure everyone is provided with their rights and is treated fairly despite their race, age, culture or sex. It also ensures that individuals are able to fully participate in our society and able to access all opportunities that are available within it.
When thinking about the term `Equality’ it generally means that we treat all individuals and groups fairly and according to their individual needs. This concept is embodied in our laws, which ensure that people are not treated differently, as they had been in the past, whereby women often had little or no rights. Today, women now have the right to vote, the same as their male counterparts. In the past, there has been a great deal of social inequality, with some individuals and groups, often being marginalised or socially excluded due to the fact that they were different. Most notably, after World War 2 there were many immigrants from the commonwealth who came to help rebuild Britain and took jobs that many people felt were beneath them. However, many of these immigrants were not accepted and faced a great deal of overt discrimination as many citizens would not allow them to rent rooms in their property and would display signs that said `No Irish, No Blacks and No Dogs’. They would also be verbally abused and called names such as `n****r’, which is known as racism and physically attacked due to their differences.
When thinking about the situation in the past in respect to a health and social care, certain groups within our society would often be made to feel as though they didn’t belong in our society and were often disadvantaged in our society. Namely, children and adults with physical disabilities were often institutionalised, almost as if the slogan `out of sight, out of mind’ were being applied to them. Those with less severe disabilities such as hearing or visual impairments or those who today, we