Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care

Overview

Learn about equality and diversity in health and care. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.

Introduction

The health and social care sector recognises the need to treat everyone equally, and therefore equality, diversity and rights affect all those working in the sector as well as those who use health and social care services.

It is important that these terms, equality, diversity and rights, are at the very core of everything that is done.

Equality, diversity and rights ensure that everyone is treated the same, regardless of the following:
·       Gender
·       Sexuality
·       Ethnicity
·       Language
·       Race
·       Age
·       Sexual orientation
·       Background
·       Beliefs
·       Disability
·       Education
·       Skin colour

Equality, diversity and rights will have different effects on your career and an impact on the people you care for as they mean different things. For example:

Equality

Equality looks at how everyone should be treated in the same way. This means that every individual should have the same rights, status or opportunities.

Laws
Laws have been put in place to ensure that this happens and organisations have to write and adhere to equality policies (guidelines that tell an organisation what to do in a particular situation) which outlines what they must do and how they should do this, so that everyone is treated equally.

You will learn

Introduction to Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health & Social Care
Groups, Stereotyping and Labelling
Promoting Equality & Diversity rights in a Health & Social care setting
Protected Characteristics 
Equality - Rights in the Social Care setting

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