My idea about diversity involves acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual children are unique, and recognizing their individual differences. Diversity recv fers to the differences in values attitudes, cultures, beliefs, skills and life experience of each individual in any group of people. In the UK, frameworks emphasise the importance of developing every child’s sense of identity and promoting a positive sense of pride in each child’s family origins. Starting with themselves, young children can develop a sense of belonging to the local community and begin to understand and respect less familiar cultures.
Equality
Equality does mean that everyone has to be treated the same. People have different needs, to play in supporting and ambitions. Practitioners have a part to play in supporting children and young people to live in the way that they value and choose to be themselves’ and to be different if they wish. Every person have equality of opportunity.
Inclusion
Inclusion in child care inclusion means that all children can attend and benefit from the same child care programs. Inclusion as a core principle in a pan-Canadian child care system would eliminate any exclusion based on disability and would go beyond non-discrimination assuring that children with disabilities get the supports they need to benefit from child care. The principle of inclusion fully unites the basic values that promote and advance participation, friendship and a celebration of diversity.
Discrimination
Discrimination is conduct that disadvantages or has an unfair impact on people from particular groups. Discrimination laws focus on the basis for the way services treat or propose to treat those who use their services or work for them. For example, a service’s admission policy may give priority to some groups of children and exclude or make it harder for other groups to obtain the service.
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