Promoting Anti-Discriminatory Practice

The centre also promotes anti-discriminatory behaviour. Discrimination is treating someone wrongly because they are different from each other. However,

|DH3W 34 |Sociology for Social Care Practice |(02) Understand the causes of discrimination and analyse its effect |

Another factor that would give a service user a positive experience in a social care service would be anti-discriminatory practice. Anti-discriminatory practice is complementary to the practice of equal opportunities. Therefore the service user would be having a positive experience as they will not be treated differently due to age, race, or gender etc. But will be given more advice or help if needed, depending on their ability.

Key legislations and codes of practice relating to diversity, equality, inclusion and discrimination in adult social care settings are:

The residents within our home would have experienced some kind of discrimination in their life time. For example the residents will be discriminated against their mental illness by outside agencies if they tried to get a job. By implementing the home policy against discrimination and promoting and raising awareness with in the home and outside, this includes all the internal and external staff that help the home and help daemon straight the great effect it has on the

1 Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability.

All types of discrimination can also lead to negative behaviour and can partly cause aggression or crime; even living in poverty and experiencing discrimination can affect an individual’s behaviour as well. Due to the negligence they may take out their frustration on the care providers or others in the society which would make them in the wrong and after being investigated this may or may not change because of the client’s self-esteem or pressure levels. As well as taking it out on the care providers, they are also able to take it out on health and social care professionals.

The data protection act- the data protection act is legislation put in place to keep personal data confidential. It can promote anti-discriminatory practice as it can stop people finding out information about individuals that the individual wants to stay private. E.g. phone numbers and addresses. These would need to stay private so people don’t find out where you live or what is wrong with you.

Describe how code of practice and legislation promote non-discriminatory practice in health and social care.

In this assignment I am going to design a booklet explaining of how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice. I am going to explain an assessment of the influences of a recent national policy initiative promoting anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. Then I am going to evaluate the success of a recent initiative in promoting anti-discriminatory practice.

Unit 4222-303 Promote equality and inclusion in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings

P3: describe the potential effects of discriminatory practices on those who use the health and social care service.

In this essay I am going to explain how the Equality Act (2010) P4 and assess how the act promotes anti-discriminatory practice M2. I will also be evaluating how successful the Equality Act (2010) is in promoting anti-discriminatory practise.D1

2.2)Explain the possible consequences of not actively complying with legislation and codes of practice relating to diversity,equality,inclusion and discrimination in adult social care settings.

This paper will introduce ways to help end racism which is any discriminatory act towards another individual or group based on race, religion, sexual orientation or religion. It will also introduce ways to eliminate oppression which is the act of interfering with the forward movement of an individual, such as denying them a pay raise or job promotion. These topics are of importance because they significantly affect African Americans, Hispanics, and members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities. This information will be presented through the lens of social justice and professional social work whose mission is ending racial discrimination and oppression, next from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics which has a zero-tolerance racism policy, and lastly from my personal perspective.