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Let’s talk about … Equality, Diversity and Human

What are our views as an organisation about the value of diversity? Differences between people are a source of richness Differences between people brings with it different experiences and perspectives

Welcoming diversity can result in greater tolerance and enhance our collective learning and understanding. Individuals and societies are richer when there is a mutual appreciation of the differences between people.

What is recognised in an equalities approach? That in certain circumstances we may have to do things a little differently for some people in order to provide them with the same opportunity as other people

What is meant by discrimination? Discrimination is the less favourable or bad treatment of someone because of one or more aspects of their social identity.

What is meant by prejudice? Prejudice is the existence of attitudes, feelings and opinions towards groups of people (because of characteristics such as their gender, sexuality race or religion) which have formed without true knowledge, thought or reason

What is meant by stereotyping? Stereotyping involves generalisations about the "typical" characteristics of members of particular groups

What do you think the impact of gender stereotypes can be?

Why was the Equalities Act 2010 introduced? To bring previous equality related legislation that had been developed at different times for different groups of people into a single piece of legislation

Protected Characteristic s What are meant by ‘protected characteristics’? They are the nine characteristics identified in the Equalities Act 2010 that are protected from discrimination and unfair treatment under equalities law. Can you name these nine characteristics?

v Age v Disability v Gender reassignment v Marriage partnership and civil Pregnancy and maternity v Race Religion and belief v v Sexual orientation

What is meant by ‘direct discrimination’? It is when someone is treated less favourably than another person because of a protected characteristic. Can you give some examples other than the one shown here …

What is meant by ‘indirect discrimination’? It is when you have a condition, rule, criteria, policy or practice that applies to everyone but particularly disadvantages people who share a protected characteristic. Other examples

What is meant by harassment? It is unwanted conduct related to one of the protected characteristics that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for

Given this definition, can you identify a range of things that might be viewed as harassment? Does it matter whether the actions were intended to harass?

What is meant by ‘victimisation’? It is when a person is subjected to poor or detrimental treatment …. Sometimes this can result in them being denied opportunities

What should you do if you experience bullying, harassment or victimisation at work?

What are meant by reasonable adjustments? Reasonable adjustments are positive steps that employers and organisations must legally take to remove any barriers people face to working in or accessing their service because of a disability

There's a duty to make reasonable adjustments if someone is placed at a substantial disadvantage compared to people who don't share their disability What are meant by reasonable adjustments? Give some examples of reasonable adjustments that can be made …

What are the 15 fundamental human rights identified in the Human Rights Act 1998?

In terms of the core human rights principles, what does the acronym FREDA stand for? CQC also look at: v The right to life v Staff rights and empowerment r e e d o m e s p e c t q u a l i t y i g n it y u t p n o m y

In terms of upholding people’s human rights, what are CQC looking at when they inspect services? How providers are incorporating these (FREDA) Human Right principles within CQC’s five Key Lines of Enquiry And those five key lines of enquiry are … Is the service: Responsiv Safe e Caring Effective Well led