Diversity: Discrimination and Service Users

As a member of the school team, the TA must share responsibility to ensure that anti-discriminatory practice is promoted. The TA must also recognise when discrimination is happening and show that inclusive practice is supported through words and actions.

1.“Rule number one: If someone disrespects you, you send a message so fierce that they won't have the chance to do it again.”

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.

1. Explain how legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to own work role

2.1. Explain how legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination apply to own work role.

Legislation and codes of practice relating to equality, diversity and discrimination are foundations of my work role. It is like a stick of rock. Without ensuring that each individual has a safe, secure and nurturing environment in which to explore, develop and learn then I might as well give up. Every individual has the right not to be discriminated against and it is my job to ensure I am a positive role model.

What I can do to reduce prejudice and discrimination is to hold myself accountable for myself how I treat others regardless of race gender sexuality handicapped.

Discrimination is an ongoing issue that many individuals experience daily. It affects a numerous amount of diverse beings in a multitude of circumstances and locations. One’s race is not the only presiding factor in being victim to discrimination, often times it can be an individual’s gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, personal values, and cultural background. Discrimination is not just about being discriminated against but sometimes it can be an unintentional maltreatment of one different from ourselves. In some instances an individual may find themselves being the victim of discrimination or the perpetrator. It is imperative to be able to recognize the different roles of discrimination.

     The first thing one must know when handling people is “don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” When you criticize

Additionally, there are many ways in which discrimination can be addressed such as stated by Weekes (2014, para. 7), it is important “To educate all your workers about discrimination; encourage workers to respect each other’s differences; respond to any evidence or complaints of inappropriate behavior; deal with any complaints of discrimination promptly and confidentially; develop a workplace policy that prohibits discrimination; train supervisors and managers on how to respond to discrimination in the workplace; make sure the workplace policy is properly enforced; and review the policy regularly to ensure that its effectiveness is

Never engage in bullying or harassment, or any behavior that could be viewed as offensive or intimidating.

Always act with fairness, honesty, integrity and openness; respect the opinions of others and treat all with equality and dignity without regard to gender, race, color, creed, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.

2. Treat others with respect, behave honestly and with integrity when dealing with clients or co-workers

- being respectful of people and positive will result in people being more comfortable to communicate.

• Recognize the dignity of human labor, always providing our coworkers with opportunity for job enrichment and advancement and the information essential to both. On the human level, we will treat every coworker with respect.