Equality, diversity and inclusion in adult care
In this lesson, you will learn:
- The importance of ensuring all staff in an organisation are being treated equally, and everyone is included
- About protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010
- How an organisation can find out how effective they are in achieving diversity
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Equality and diversity legislation’
- ‘The 9 protected characteristics' by Cardiff University
- ‘Your rights to equality from health and social care services: Equality Act 2010’ from the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- ‘Equality Act 2010: Overview for social care’ on the SCIE website
- ‘Building inclusive workplaces’ on the CIPD website
- ‘Inclusion’ on the Royal College of Nursing website
- ‘Regulation 10: Dignity and respect’ on the Care Quality Commission website
- ‘Defining the different types of discrimination in health and social care’ webpage on The Hub website
- ‘The implications of the Equality Act 2010’ from the Social Care Institute for Excellence
- ‘Fairness at work: A guide for healthcare managers’ by Roger Kline for the Institute of Healthcare Management
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Equality, diversity and inclusion’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation ‘Be culturally aware’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Discrimination’.
- Good Practice Example
- Visit the Social Care TV website. The page contains a video showing how a setting works to include gypsy / travellers into its services.
Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?
- This video from the SCIE is titled 'Social inclusion: Dignity in care'. Social inclusion, in practice, means doing things such as promoting and supporting access to social networks; or resolving transport issues so that they do not prevent people from participating in the wider community.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Further Reading
- Visit the website of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Look on the internet or in a dictionary to find definitions of the following terms:
- Stereotyping
- Prejudice
- Racism
- Sexism
- Institutionalised discrimination
- Click on the link to read this resource on ‘Equality and Diversity’ from Skills for Care.
- Click to read ‘Taking action about discrimination in health and care services’ on the Citizen’s Advice website.
- Click to read ‘Disability, discrimination and the Equality Act 2010’ on the Royal College of Nursing website.
- This document, produced by Age UK, is called ‘Equality and human rights in practice: A guide to practitioners and commissioners of services for older people’.
- Click to read ‘How to challenge discrimination at work’ on the Equality and Human Rights Commission website
- Think And Challenge
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