To protect both men and women against discrimination on the grounds of gender in employment, education, and advertising or in the provision of housing, goods, services or facilities. Sex discrimination can be direct through physical touch and abuse. It can also be indirect through harassment such as unfair treatment. Sexual discrimination is also obvious when an employee earns more money than another employee of the opposite sex, despite having the same skills.
Mental Health Act 1983:
The law is built on agreeing the action to take place, to make sure that people with mental health difficulties to get the attention and treatment they need for their own or for the protection of other people. The law act defends people who are judged as having a mental disorder and this regulation protects the person receiving treatment.
The Children Act 1998/2004
This legislation is about improving children’s lives. The Children Act 1989 owed duties to local authorities, courts, parents, to ensure children are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted. This Act is aimed to protect the child from harm and neglect. This bans this physical punishment as an act of abuse against children. The Act is now the basis for most official administration considered helpful to children, especially bringing all local government functions of children's welfare and education. The 2004 Act also exactly provided disabled children.
Data Protection Act 1998
The 1998 Data Protection Act came into force early in 1999 and covers how information about living identifiable persons is used. It is much broader in scope than the earlier 1984 act, but does contain some provision for a transitional period for compliance with the new requirements.
This act is important because it has safekeeping that must be applied to protect personal data. If we didn’t have this law enforced we would have knew about everyone's personal data and no one wants to share their personal data to