Promote Equality and Inclusion in Health, Social Care or Children and Young People’s Settings
Promote Equality and Inclusion in health, social care or children and young people’s settings
What is meant by Equality, Inclusion and Diversity?
Equality: Equality of opportunity, giving each person opportunities which are equal to others in society regardless of race, gender or disability.
Inclusion: A process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and belonging.
Diversity: A wide range of characteristics and backgrounds, including social and cultural backgrounds, different religions, colours of skin, hair types and disabilities. Such diversity contributes to the strength of a community.
Describe Potential effects of discrimination.
Discrimination can affect people on a physical, emotional, social and intellectual level.
Physically it can lead to deterioration in a person’s health through a loss of appetite or comfort eating out of depression which in turn can bring about either weight loss, or extreme weight gain. Sleeplessness, headaches and a general lack of energy are also ways in which discrimination may physically affect a person.
Emotionally discrimination can bring about damage to ones self image, a lack of self esteem or confidence which in turn may damage a person’s ability to learn or fulfil their potential. It can also bring on a general feeling of insecurity, anxiety and sever depression. Socially a person may feel isolated and become withdrawn finding it hard to maintain or build relationships with others. The physical, emotional and social effects of discrimination will eventually become so much that a person may begin to become effected intellectually. A lack of achievement in goals that may have at one time been relatively easy to achieve, poor performance in exams and job interviews are all effects of one being intellectually damaged by discrimination.
Discrimination not only effects the person being discriminated against is also effects the discriminator and society as a whole. When
What is meant by Equality, Inclusion and Diversity?
Equality: Equality of opportunity, giving each person opportunities which are equal to others in society regardless of race, gender or disability.
Inclusion: A process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and belonging.
Diversity: A wide range of characteristics and backgrounds, including social and cultural backgrounds, different religions, colours of skin, hair types and disabilities. Such diversity contributes to the strength of a community.
Describe Potential effects of discrimination.
Discrimination can affect people on a physical, emotional, social and intellectual level.
Physically it can lead to deterioration in a person’s health through a loss of appetite or comfort eating out of depression which in turn can bring about either weight loss, or extreme weight gain. Sleeplessness, headaches and a general lack of energy are also ways in which discrimination may physically affect a person.
Emotionally discrimination can bring about damage to ones self image, a lack of self esteem or confidence which in turn may damage a person’s ability to learn or fulfil their potential. It can also bring on a general feeling of insecurity, anxiety and sever depression. Socially a person may feel isolated and become withdrawn finding it hard to maintain or build relationships with others. The physical, emotional and social effects of discrimination will eventually become so much that a person may begin to become effected intellectually. A lack of achievement in goals that may have at one time been relatively easy to achieve, poor performance in exams and job interviews are all effects of one being intellectually damaged by discrimination.
Discrimination not only effects the person being discriminated against is also effects the discriminator and society as a whole. When