The Equality Act 2010: Anti-Discriminatory Practice
The Equality Act 2010-
How has this act promoted anti-discriminatory practice and how successful has this been?
The equality act (2010) was introduced to provide a modern framework with a clear law to effectively tackle disadvantage and discrimination. The Act is intended to simplify the law by bringing together existing anti-discrimination legislations, such as, the Equal Pay Act (1970), the sex discrimination act (1975), the Race relations act (1976) and the disability discrimination act (1995). These acts protect people from discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender. The legislation requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of the characteristics of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. …show more content…
For example, The Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public. In November 2013, Arizona USA put a ban on aborting children after 20 weeks due to prenatal disability diagnosis. It urges the opportunity to clarify that there is no right to abort children because they have been diagnosed with a disability. Studies show the alarming rate at which children prenatally diagnosed with disability are aborted; and highlights the interest in granting equal treatment to unborn children, whether or not they have a disability. This shows that the equality act is working because it is ensuring that everybody gets treated equally, with a disability or not, even before they have been
How has this act promoted anti-discriminatory practice and how successful has this been?
The equality act (2010) was introduced to provide a modern framework with a clear law to effectively tackle disadvantage and discrimination. The Act is intended to simplify the law by bringing together existing anti-discrimination legislations, such as, the Equal Pay Act (1970), the sex discrimination act (1975), the Race relations act (1976) and the disability discrimination act (1995). These acts protect people from discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender. The legislation requires equal treatment in access to employment as well as private and public services, regardless of the characteristics of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. …show more content…
For example, The Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public. In November 2013, Arizona USA put a ban on aborting children after 20 weeks due to prenatal disability diagnosis. It urges the opportunity to clarify that there is no right to abort children because they have been diagnosed with a disability. Studies show the alarming rate at which children prenatally diagnosed with disability are aborted; and highlights the interest in granting equal treatment to unborn children, whether or not they have a disability. This shows that the equality act is working because it is ensuring that everybody gets treated equally, with a disability or not, even before they have been