equality act

equality act

1. equal opportunities laws

   • race relations act
   • equal pay act
   • disability discrimination act
   • sex discrimination act
   • equality act
   • age discrimination act

2. equality clause weaknesses

   • complex and hard to make a clame
   • fear of loss of employment
   • difficult to prove discrimination, victimisation or harassment
   • not everyone is swear of the act
   • people are still treated differently

3. equality clause strengths

   • equal pay
   • equal promotion and training and selection
   • equal marriage status
   • equal role of men and women
   • equal terms of contract
   • prevents victimisation
   • prevents direcect and indirect discrimination

4. affects of discrimination

   • unhappiness
   • under achievement
   • low self esteem
   • poor relationships
   • unemployment and poor education.
   • depression
   • self-harm

5. positive working practices

   • person centred planning - having as much control over the process as possible. service user is able to make decisions and is in power.
   • needsled assessment - building a service that meets the needs of the service user. The service needs to meet the needs of the service user.
   • anti-discriminatory practice - assumptions or stereotypes are avoided. giving equal access to the services and challenge and discriminatory actions.
   • empowering - them making there own choices
   • positive renforcement - identifying the positive aspects of the service user and strengthening them, to help change the behaviour to reenforce there self esteem.

6. key words

   • equality - is having equal opportunities and rights, it is being treated fairly.
   • inequality - is not having equal opportunities and rights, it is being treated un fairly and experiencing discrimination.