GSCC Promote Anti-Discriminatory Practice

UNIT 2: EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND RIGHTS JADA COOPER 20140170 P4: This task will explain 2 different national initiatives, stating when they were set up, the purpose and also how they promote anti-discriminatory practises. It will also talk about Charters and their importance, whilst discussing 2 of the codes of practices’. Care Standards Act 2000 The Care Standards was established in 2000, its’ aim is to ensure that the standards of care within all institutions were not inadequate as the rules and regulations have to be adhered to. The care standards act try’s to make sure that all institutions are equipped and well facilitated to meet the needs of those within the provision.

Within my placement setting in Aspire Scotland there are legislation protecting the children and young people ensuring good health, wellbeing and safeguarding. One of the legislations in place is the Regulation of Care Act 2001. The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) is a non-departmental public body established by this act From this the SSSC produced the codes of practice which was produced to protect people who use services, raise standards of practice and support workers. The SSSC and Care Commission work closely together to ensure employers and workers understand their responsibilities in relation to the Codes of Practice.

Discrimination legislation makes it illegal to discriminate against any person in the workplace on grounds of age, sex and disability.

The legislations, policies, processes, and code of practices have established the responsibility of employer in the regulation of social care worker. These standards are being set at the national level as they require the social care providers to comply with them. The codes are important step in the introduction of the system of regulation for the social care within four countries of the United Kingdom. They are required to ensure that people working as social care providers are required to understand their responsibilities. They are required to be provided with the appropriate training to handle vulnerable groups requiring assistance from social care providers.

Codes of practice for nursing and social work: In addition to organisational guidelines, professional codes of practice you require a professional to work in high level of standards. You need to respect people when using services as individual and minimise

1) Anti-discrimination Act in 1977: This act of New South Wales parliament. It is related with discrimination in employment, the public education system, deliver food and other things like as health centre, banking, shops and night clubs etc. 2) Racial Discrimination Act in 1975: This law passed by Australian parliament.

Explain the importance of demonstrating anti-discriminatory/anti-bias practice when working with children and young people: The importance of demonstrating anti-discriminatory/anti-bias in a work setting is to help prevent discrimination towards any individual children, members of staff or parents and to help promote equal opportunities. By helping to prevent discrimination and promote equal opportunities we are making sure that all members of staff, children, parents and other professionals who enter the work setting are treated equally and fairly and in an unbiased way. All work settings should have policies, procedures and strategies which demonstrate how a positive and inclusive attitude should be towards all individuals that attend the setting regardless to their age, gender, race, culture or disability. By showing this type of positive attitude each individual within the wor setting

Social workers main ethical responsibility is to ensure that the patient is receiving the proper care that they are entitled and that the patient is the main

In the ever changing landscape of health and social care and children and young person’s settings there are many pieces of government legislation and regulatory framework that service providers and organisations must now comply with. For example Care Quality Commission (CQC) introduced the essential standards of quality and safety which are central to the workplace. Every staff member has responsibility for providing good quality social care. Social care governance is the process by which organisations ensure good service delivery and promote good outcomes for people who use services.

The codes of conduct for adult care workers sets out the responsibilities of care staff as a list of statements that describe the standards of professional conduct in relation to equality and diversity in their daily work. Equality policies and procedures by employers and local policies relating to diversity and equality are in place to protect vulnerable individuals at

There are a number of policies and legislative pieces that relate to the work role I am in. The equality act 2010 combines several different legislative pieces that are all relevant in the health and social care sector. Under this act it states that it’s unlawful to treat any individual less favourably on the basis of protected characteristics such as age, gender, disability, race or religion, all of which can vary in the care sector. This will allow us as workers to give equal opportunities and respect any barriers in place by characteristics such as religion.

It is the job of social workers to challenge these policies on a continuous basis. Every possible action should be taken to improve policy whenever applicable. Responsibilities of social workers to the broader society are covered in section six. 6.04 Social and Political Action are most relevant with this case. Section (b) explains that special attention should be given to people that are vulnerable, disadvantaged, oppressed or exploited.

Discriminatory and Non-discriminatory practice A setting must have a code of practice and policies which make sure discrimination cannot occur and that they are not breaking the law. Nursery setting must recognise and respond to the needs of the individual who access their setting. Discrimination is behaviour or action that is motivated by unfair beliefs. This can take a range of forms and can take place for a multitude of reasons and usually occurs through lack of knowledge and an understanding of diversity, every childcare professional must be conscious of the fact that a child or young person will experience some form of discrimination against them throughout their time in school, a child may be discriminated against for any reason; because

The topic on rather or not most Americans are discriminatory towards minorities is an ongoing debate being argued in many recent controversies. For example, the Ahmed Mohamed Controversy. This controversy has been taking place since September 16, 2015. It involves a 14 year old freshmen who attended a Irving Texas high school. This freshmen was arrested and interrogated while being accused of bringing a hoax bomb to school.

Assignment 2 Know discriminatory practices in health and social care. Discriminatory factors- Age: Age is how old you are determined by year. An example of who may be discriminated against because of their age would be the elderly and the young.