Unit 6
BTEC Level 2 first health and social care
Jade Louise Roberts Unit 6
Task 2
All health and social care settings are designed to support equality, diversity, rights and also the many of other different ordeals that influence today’s modern society. The main aim and focus of this assignment is to explain factors that may influence the equality of opportunity for individuals.
Discrimination is an act of prejudice against a person because of their set of characteristics. These characteristics can include disability, age, gender, religion, race, sex and sexual orientation. There are two different forms of discrimination, direct discrimination, this occurs when a person is treated less favourably than another in a comparable situation because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. An example of direct discrimination is a job advert, which says "no disabled people need apply. And indirect discrimination this means that one person is treated exactly the same as another. It is most important that in health and social care settings, practitioners understand all these factors as well as how they can have an effect on the care they provide to service users. A practitioner needs to acknowledge an individual’s beliefs even when it is not something they believe in themselves. Although there is laws that have been put in place in modern society there are situations where people are still being discriminated against. These are examples of factors that may influence the equality of opportunity of individuals.
Like in the case of the killing of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered whilst waiting for a bus with his friend, this relates to discrimination against ethnicity and is a prime example of inequality in modern society. Stephen Lawrence was only 18 when he died on the 22nd April 1993. The group of individuals that were responsible, attacked him simply because of his skin colour, this was a racially motivated assault. The
Jade Louise Roberts Unit 6
Task 2
All health and social care settings are designed to support equality, diversity, rights and also the many of other different ordeals that influence today’s modern society. The main aim and focus of this assignment is to explain factors that may influence the equality of opportunity for individuals.
Discrimination is an act of prejudice against a person because of their set of characteristics. These characteristics can include disability, age, gender, religion, race, sex and sexual orientation. There are two different forms of discrimination, direct discrimination, this occurs when a person is treated less favourably than another in a comparable situation because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. An example of direct discrimination is a job advert, which says "no disabled people need apply. And indirect discrimination this means that one person is treated exactly the same as another. It is most important that in health and social care settings, practitioners understand all these factors as well as how they can have an effect on the care they provide to service users. A practitioner needs to acknowledge an individual’s beliefs even when it is not something they believe in themselves. Although there is laws that have been put in place in modern society there are situations where people are still being discriminated against. These are examples of factors that may influence the equality of opportunity of individuals.
Like in the case of the killing of Stephen Lawrence who was murdered whilst waiting for a bus with his friend, this relates to discrimination against ethnicity and is a prime example of inequality in modern society. Stephen Lawrence was only 18 when he died on the 22nd April 1993. The group of individuals that were responsible, attacked him simply because of his skin colour, this was a racially motivated assault. The