Unit 2 - Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care
Institution
PEARSON (PEARSON)
This essay contains D2.1 which asks you to outline a legislation, code of practice and policy. Together with this, D3 is also included where you are asked to describe how the health and social care practitioner contributes to inclusive practice. The anti discrimination practice is also placed toget...
Unit 2 - Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care
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D2. 1
Outline one piece of legislation, one policy and one code of practice in relation to equality,
diversity and inclusion.
Equality Act 2010
What is Equality Act of 2010? What does it protect us from?
How does this law help us? Long ago, Men were considered
superior than women. Disabled people have less access to what
‘normal people’ can and those with different races were often
bullied. Because of this injustice and unequal treatment, people
affected experienced discriminations, harassments and
exclusion. Their opportunities, choices and freedom were also
held back due to this. But as time passed, A law was created in
order to suppress this, the Amended law, Equality Act of 2010.
But before we understand the purpose of Equality Act 2010, we
must first understand what Equality is.
Equality, from its root word “Equal”
basically means that each of us are the same despite our
differences in culture, race, beliefs, personalities etc. Equal,
wherein everyone has the same access to services, opportunities
to do or achieve something and have the same rights. Before,
there were many laws denoting Equality such as the “Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Equal Pay Act
1970, Disability Discrimination Act 1995, Race Relations Act 1976 etc.” Because of these laws, many
opportunities and changes has been made but the quantity of those laws made it harder for people to
understand and enact, so these acts were compressed into one single act in order for us to understand it
better and easier. The Equality Act of 2010 was a law created from the combination of these laws.
This act serves to protect everyone from any kind of discrimination anywhere, no matter what our
differences are such as our race, beliefs, religion, culture, language, gender, age and capabilities.
In relation to Health and Social Care, this act as health workers will help us to
understand that everyone we give service to have the right for an equal service or treatment. One
example is about a rich and a poor patient, we all know that some hospitals require payment for their
services, especially in Asia, but as health workers despite a patient being able to pay or not we should
give them the same treatments. Equality understands Inclusion, and Inclusion comes with the
knowledge of Diversity and Respect and practicing all of them helps us, health workers, the ability to
help our patients better.
Policy:
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
What is the Public Interest Disclosure Act of 1998? What is Whistleblowing? How does the Public
Interest Disclosure Act protect whistleblowers? The Public Interest Disclosure act is a law created to
protect whistleblowers. But what is a whistleblower? A whistleblower is someone defined by
www.wbhelpline.org.uk as “a person who raises a concern about a wrongdoing in their workplace or
within the NHS or social care setting…” Whistleblowers are commonly employees or workers in a
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